wisht
Britishinterjection
Example Sentences
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Aunt Eller counsels the traumatized Laurey to be “hardy,” and, when Laurey interrupts—“I wisht I was the way you are”—Aunt Eller says, “Fiddlesticks!”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2019
“And I wisht I was back there roight naow, ’stead of marching through this bloomin’ place.”
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
I wisht him not to touch me & told him to remain at a distance.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
“But the one trick I need I haven’t got. I wisht I knew that one.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
She give it right to me—‘bout this big a piece. I wisht I had that velvet right now.”
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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