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In natural English speech, "hist" appears in contexts such as: "I had kind of tuned out at that stage. I wasn't really paying attention. Don't take it personally. I was just waiting for you to hist the jackpot at the end. So if you have someone who reads out the number, who's an accountant or something, or an engineer — there's an engineer —". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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IPA/hɪst/

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I had kind of tuned out at that stage. I wasn't really paying attention. Don't take it personally.

I was just waiting for you to hist the jackpot at the end.

So if you have someone who reads out the number, who's an accountant or something, or an engineer — there's an engineer —

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noun

History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience").

interjection

An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.

Synonyms:psst

interjection

An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.

“"My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"”

Synonyms:hush shh shush whist

verb

Pronunciation spelling of hoist.

“1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30, When he spy de train a-comin' 'roun' de curve, he hists de hankershuf way up ovuh his haid for hit to stop, an' when de engineer rech de spot whar Unkuh Aaron stannin', he jumps down outen his seat to de groun' an asts Unkuh Aaron de why he stop de train.”

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