jist

jist

1. Nonstandard spelling of just.
   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, OCLC 1057107260:

     'Mister Muntlehiney,' said the man. 'Wot's come on him? Is he at home?'
     'He is above stairs, I believe,' replied Kate, a little reassured by this inquiry. 'Do you want him?'
     'No,' replied the visitor. 'I don't ezactly want him, if it's made a favour on. You can jist give him that 'ere card, and tell him if he wants to speak to ME, and save trouble, here I am; that's all.'

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     They get all their chawing by borrowing; they say to a fellow, "I wisht you'd len' me a chaw, Jack, I jist this minute give Ben Thompson the last chaw I had"—which is a lie pretty much everytime;

   • 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:

     The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.

jist (plural jists)

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gist

• ISTJ, JITs, jits

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɪst]
• Hyphenation: jist

jist

1. masculine singular nominal predicative of jistý

From Proto-Slavic *ešče.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjist/

jist

1. still
2. yet

From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian jisti; compare Ijekavian and Ekavian jesti.

• IPA^(key): /jîst/

jist impf

1. to eat
   • 2010, Natalina Spadanuda, “Le renard et le loup”:

     Kum, ja znam di je na masarija di, unutra, jesu čuda stvari za jist. Što gorivaš, šma po?

     Godfather, I know where there is a farm where there are many things to eat inside. What do you say, shall we go?

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

jist

1. Alternative form of gist
   • DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH.

     Wathere proceeds to tell that the game was “ was jist ing our hone ”

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 131