WIT

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wit¹ substantiv

1. (adesea la pl.) inteligenţă; spirit; deşteptăciune; putere de judecată; discernământ;

(înv.) the five wits cele cinci simţuri; rit; umor; ironie; sarcasm;

quick wit promptitudine (a răspunsurilor etc.); isteţime.

2. duh, spirit.

3. om inteligent sau deştept.

wit² pers. I şi III sg. wot, pers. II sg. wost, plural wite, past şi part. trec. wist verb tr. şi intr.

(înv. ) a şti;

to wit adică, cu alte cuvinte.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

What a strange thing love is! he can see ready wit in Harriet, but will not dine alone for her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I was at my wit’s end where to get the money, but a sudden idea came to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, that is for your wit to discover.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was at my wits’ end, when suddenly the happy thought occurred to me that you were in the town, and I came straight round to put the matter into your hands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he soon found out where he really was; and was forced to have all his wits about him, that he might not get between the cow’s teeth, and so be crushed to death.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The sudden exultation with which he slapped me on the knee, and leaned back in his chair, with his eyebrows lifted up as high as he could possibly lift them, made me think him farther out of his wits than ever.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mr Shepherd laughed, as he knew he must, at this wit, and then added—I presume to observe, Sir Walter, that, in the way of business, gentlemen of the navy are well to deal with.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Since, however, Dr. Van Helsing has been with me, all this bad dreaming seems to have passed away; the noises that used to frighten me out of my wits—the flapping against the windows, the distant voices which seemed so close to me, the harsh sounds that came from I know not where and commanded me to do I know not what—have all ceased.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Mr. Elton was so hot and tired, that all this wit seemed thrown away.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Humph—Harriet's ready wit!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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