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wit's end

wit's end is the alternative form of wits' end.

Meaning of wits' end

Noun

wits' end (plural wits' ends)

  1. (UK) The limit of one's sanity or mental capacity; the point of desperation.
    • The Seamen they
      Bestir their stumps, and at wits end do weep.
      Wake, Jonas, who saith
      Heave me over deck.1699, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, published 1989, page 136

Forms of wit's end

pluralwits' ends

Questions about wit's end

What is wit's end the alternative form of?
Wit's end is the alternative form of wits' end.

Words near wit's end in the dictionary

  1. wit'
  2. wit'cha
  3. wit'cho
  4. wit'cho'
  5. wit'choo
  6. wit's end
  7. wit-cracker
  8. wit-crackers
  9. wit-cracking
  10. wit-monger
  11. wit-mongers

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