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Kist vs Hist - What's the difference?

kist | hist |

As verbs the difference between kist and hist

is that kist is (obsolete) (kiss) or kist can be (scotland) to place in a coffin while hist is (us).

As nouns the difference between kist and hist

is that kist is (scotland) a chest while hist is (dated) an instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.

As an interjection hist is

(dated).

As an abbreviation hist is

history.

kist

English

Etymology 1

From kiss

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (kiss)
  • * 1648 , ,
    • To me my Julia lately sent
    A Bracelet richly Redolent
    The Beads I kist , but most lov'd her
    That did perfume the Pomander.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A chest.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 17:
  • *:the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said [...].
  • (Scotland) A coffin.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To place in a coffin.

    • Related terms

    * kist o' whistles

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    hist

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience")

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