Whit
See also: whit
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editWhit (plural Whits)
- The season of Whitsuntide.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editShortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.
Proper noun
editthe Whit
- (originally thieves' cant, now archaic or historical) Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s).
- 1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:
- A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
- 2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books, →ISBN:
- One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]
Anagrams
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editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English White.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editWhit
- a surname, equivalent to English White
- 1987, The Manuscript of Jacob Poole's Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy:
- Whit
- White
References
edit- T. P. Dolan (1987) Eighteenth-Century lreland / lris an dá chultúr Vol. 2, Eighteenth-Century lreland Society, page 205
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