释义 |
▪ I. jist|dʒɪst| colloq. and dial. var. just adv. Cf. jest.
c1820in Amer. Speech (1941) XVI. 157/1 Jist, just. 1835A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 29 His eyes don't look like it; but he jist as live go agin the house with you, or in a ditch, as anyhow. 1839[see lop v.2 2 b]. 1848Trollope Kellys & O'Kellys II. iii. 69 You must do more than jist ask her. 1931D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxv. 283 ‘I was jist thinkin', then,’ said Duncan, ‘..whether it was not, after all, possible.’ 1941Sat. Even. Post 10 May 36/2 Jist taste a grain o' patience. Ibid. 112/3, I jist saw a quare thing. ▪ II. jist variant of gist v. and n.2
1828Craven Dial., Jist, cattle taken to depasture at a stipulated price, from agist. Jist, to take cattle to grass. |