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kydst

kydst verb: knows (second-person singular).

Verb

kydst

  1. (nonce-word, obsolete) knows (second-person singular)
    • But, ah! unwise and witlesse Colin Cloute, / That kydst the hidden kindes of many a weede, / Yet kydst not ene to cure thy fore heart-roote, / Whose ranckling wound as yet does rifely bleede.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC

Origin of kydst

See kydde, imperative of kythe (“to show”). Apparently a misunderstanding by Spenser.

Questions about kydst

What does kydst mean?
Kydst means knows (second-person singular).
What part of speech is kydst?
Kydst is a verb.

Words near kydst in the dictionary

  1. kydell
  2. kydells
  3. Kydonia
  4. Kydonian
  5. Kydonians
  6. kydst
  7. kye
  8. Kyeamba
  9. kyebosh
  10. Kyeemagh
  11. Kyer

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