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wits

We have found lemma(root) word of wits : wit.

Definitions


[wɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence
(e.g: she does not lack perception or native wit)

- a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour
(e.g: his caustic wit cuts through the humbug)


Phrases:
- be at one's wits' end
- be scared out of one's wits
- gather one's wits
- have one's wits about one
- live by one's wits
- pit one's wits against

Origin:
Old English wit(t), gewit(t), denoting the mind as the seat of consciousness, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weet and German Witz, also to wit


[wɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- have knowledge
(e.g: I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of)

- that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)
(e.g: the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English witan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weten and German wissen, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit veda ‘knowledge’ and Latin videre ‘see’




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