[dʒɪst], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the substance or general meaning of a speech or text
(e.g: it was hard to get the gist of Pedro's talk)

- the real point of an action
(e.g: damage is the gist of the action and without it the plaintiff must fail)

- chat or gossip
(e.g: I decided to spend the night at his place catching up on all the gist from the wedding)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: from Old French, third person singular present tense of gesir ‘to lie’, from Latin jacere. The Anglo-French legal phrase cest action gist ‘this action lies’ denoted that there were sufficient grounds to proceed; gist was adopted into English denoting the grounds themselves (gist)

[dʒɪst], (Verb)

Definitions:
- engage in chat or gossip
(e.g: I need a good friend I can always gist with)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: from Old French, third person singular present tense of gesir ‘to lie’, from Latin jacere. The Anglo-French legal phrase cest action gist ‘this action lies’ denoted that there were sufficient grounds to proceed; gist was adopted into English denoting the grounds themselves (gist)