Is't

//ɪst// contraction

contraction ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Contraction
  1. 1
    Contraction of is + it. abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, obsolete

    "How now? moodie? / What is't thou canſt demand?"

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"O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, when thou art all the better part of me? What can mine own praise to mine own self bring, and what is't but mine own when I praise thee?"

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