wit
noun
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
wost
-
an inflection of
wit.
Example Sentences
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The Utes surrender an average of 76 points per game, which is the wost in the conference.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2011
But this week the wost was yet to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ther-with it semed as he wepte almost; `A ha,' quod Troilus so rewfully, 65 `Wher me be wo, O mighty god, thow wost!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
And sith thou wost I do it for no wyle, And sith I am he that thou tristest most, 720 Tel me sumwhat, sin al my wo thou wost.'
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Tell me the wost, stranger; I kin stand it; but I sure hate to fetch the news hum to her.”
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Silas K. Boone
