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wistonwish

wistonwish is the alternative form of wishtonwish.

Meaning of wishtonwish

Noun

wishtonwish (plural wishtonwishes)

  1. (US, obsolete, except perhaps in dialects) The prairie dog.
    • On the twenty fourth of October, while on a short excursion from this place, Lt. Pike and Dr. Robertson, (a gentleman who accompanied the expedition,) killed some prairie squirrels, or wishtonwishes, and nine rattle snakes, […]1812 April, “Pike's Expedition”, in The General Repository and Review, volume 1, page 398

Forms of wistonwish

pluralwistonwishes

Questions about wistonwish

What is wistonwish the alternative form of?
Wistonwish is the alternative form of wishtonwish.

Words near wistonwish in the dictionary

  1. wistiti
  2. wistitis
  3. wistless
  4. wistly
  5. Wiston
  6. wistonwish
  7. wistonwishes
  8. Wistow
  9. wists
  10. Wiswall
  11. Wiswalls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wistonwish (page history and authors); wishtonwish (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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