See whisht on Wiktionary
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"Scots lemmas",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots terms borrowed from Scottish Gaelic",
"Scots terms derived from Scottish Gaelic",
"Scots uncomparable adjectives",
"Scots verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "gd",
"3": "èist",
"4": "",
"5": "listen, harken"
},
"expansion": "Scottish Gaelic èist (“listen, harken”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Scottish Gaelic èist (“listen, harken”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "not comparable",
"cat2": "uncomparable adjectives"
},
"expansion": "whisht (not comparable)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "whisht (not comparable)",
"name": "sco-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scots terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"hushed, quiet"
],
"links": [
[
"hushed",
"hushed"
],
[
"quiet",
"quiet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) hushed, quiet"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "wheesht"
}
],
"word": "whisht"
}
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