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guist

guist is the obsolete form of joust.

Meaning of joust

Verb

joust (third-person singular simple present jousts, present participle jousting, simple past and past participle jousted)

  1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
    • The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.
  2. To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
    • verbally joust
  3. (slang) To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.

See all 4 meanings of joust

Forms of guist

third-person singular presentguists
present participleguisting
past participleguisted
pastguisted

Questions about guist

What is guist the obsolete form of?
Guist is the obsolete form of joust.

Words near guist in the dictionary

  1. Guisinger
  2. Guisingers
  3. guisings
  4. guissette
  5. guissettes
  6. guist
  7. guists
  8. Guisui
  9. guitalele
  10. guitaleles
  11. guitalin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guist (page history and authors); joust (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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