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Gost vs Nost - What's the difference?

gost | nost |

As a noun gost

is .

As a contraction nost is

(obsolete) ; wottest not; knowest not.

gost

English

Alternative forms

* ghost

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1600 , year_published=2004 , edition=reprint , author=Richard Hakluyt , title=Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Kessinger Publishing , isbn=9781419178733 , page=68 , passage= ... may non evylle gost entre ne come unto the place that it is inne.}}

    Related terms

    * geist

    References

    * ----

    nost

    English

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
  • (obsolete) ; wottest not; knowest not.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)