Associations to the word «Hist»

Wiktionary

HIST, abbreviation. History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience")
HIST, interjection. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
HIST, interjection. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
HIST, noun. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
HIST, abbreviation. History.
HIST, verb. (US) Eye dialect spelling of hoist.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle