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wis

1

[ wis ]

verb (used with or without object)

, Archaic.
  1. to know.


Wis.

2
or Wisc

abbreviation for

  1. Wisconsin.

Wis.

1

abbreviation for

  1. Wisconsin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


wis

2

/ wɪs /

verb

  1. archaic.
    to know or suppose (something)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wis1

1500–10; by false analysis of iwis as I wis I know; wit 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wis1

C17: a form derived from iwis , mistakenly interpreted as I wis I know, as if from Old English witan to know
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Example Sentences

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., did him one better, imagining Ebola-infected members of ISIS entering the United States as human WMDS.

Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Ron Johnson (R-WIS) are co-sponsors of the legislation.

She tells me about a show she once played at a college in Madison, Wis., where a few fratty football players got out of hand.

Or, say, Oak Creek, Wis., where a gunman shot and killed six at a Sikh temple in August.

This past week, it was the shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis., that triggered those flashbacks.

No man parts wis zat which is valuable, to strangers, wisout a proper honorarium.

It is the largest of all the Homes, though they have a small one at Milwaukee, Wis., and several others.

Finally, they came to what are now Il-li-nois and Wis-consin, where many places still bear the French names then given them.

But I wis it was not on this night that I did think of the renowned Romans, or make these sanctifying reflections.

They had also worked for some time in the Dodgeville, Wis., lead mines.

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