Wit vs Zit - What's the difference?

wit | zit |

As a verb zit is

to live.

wit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . Compare (m).

Noun

(en noun)

Sanity.

The senses.

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

Intelligence; common sense.

Humour, especially when clever or quick.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* brevity is the soul of wit * collect one's wits * gather one's wits * have one’s wits about one * inwit * mother wit * native wit * scare out of one’s wits * witcraft * witful * witless * witling * witter * wittol * witticism

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).

Verb

(head)

(ambitransitive, chiefly, archaic) Know, be aware of .

You committed terrible actions — to wit , murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.

They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.

* 1849 , , St. Luke the Painter , lines 5–8

but soon having wist

How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day

Are symbols also in some deeper way,

She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.

Conjugation

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Usage notes

* As a preterite-present verb, the third-person singular indicative form is not .

Derived terms

* to wit * unwitting * witness

Etymology 3

From English with.

Preposition

(head)

(en-SoE)

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs English terms with homophones ----

zit

English

Noun

(en noun)

(US, slang) pimple

* 1968 , J. Lawrence Hagen, "Pinball 1959", Generation volume 20–21, page 182:

I can't help thinking how little good all that working out did him. I think the only thing he ever got out of it was more zits .

* 1987 , 00:06:35:

Brad: Sara, did you take my Clearasil again? Sara: I ran out of brown (paint). Brad: Great. How am I supposed to cover up my zits ?

Synonyms

* acker, akker (Archaic Australian slang)