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Clost vs Coost - What's the difference?

clost | coost |

As an adjective clost

is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a verb coost is

past tense of cast.

clost

English

Adjective

  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Rex Beach, title=Pardners, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Stewart Edward White, title=The Rules of the Game, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="It won't get clost to there," put in Jack. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Emerson Hough, title=The Covered Wagon, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Don't waste no powder--let 'em come up clost as they will. }}

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    coost

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete, or, Scottish) (cast)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Alexander Hislop, title=The Proverbs of Scotland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1780, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., The An Unco Mournfu' Tale As Mailie, an' her lambs thegither, Was ae day nibbling on the tether, Upon her cloot she coost a hitch, An' owre she warsl'd in the ditch: There, groaning, dying, she did lie, When Hughoc he cam doytin by. }}