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
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
“But the one trick I need I haven’t got. I wisht I knew that one.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
“You don’t know what I been th’ew these two years, Miss Love. Lord, I wisht we didn’t have to whisper. I’m a-gittin’ hoarse.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
I wisht I’d had a girl like Jenny to write to me, but there ain’t many such as her, I reckon.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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