jistadv.
/dʒɪst/ = just adv.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > barely, scarcely, only, or just
uneathc1200
scarcely1297
albusyc1325
onlepyc1350
anerly1381
barec1400
scarce1413
scantlyc1440
narrowlyc1450
scant1492
barelya1513
hardly?1532
faintly1544
nakedly1589
just1603
rawly1607
just1627
badly1715
scrimp1756
bare-weighta1763
scrimplya1774
jimp1814
jistc1820
c1820 in Amer. Speech (1941) 16 157/1 Jist, just.
1835 A. 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 C. M. Kirkland New Home ii. 17 Jist come in, and take off your things, and lop down, if you're a mind to.
1848 A. Trollope Kellys & O'Kellys II. iii. 69 You must do more than jist ask her.
1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xxv. 283 ‘I was jist thinkin', then,’ said Duncan, ‘..whether it was not, after all, possible.’
1941 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 May 36/2 Jist taste a grain o' patience.
1941 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 10 May 112/3 I jist saw a quare thing.
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