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The desire for a thing or situation which is very unrealistic but persists as a desireable alternative to reality. Its accumulation in the psyche leads to the state of being wistful. In large enough amounts wist can even lead to cognitive dissonance and melancholy.
Abandoning pursuit of her childish dreams for a life of safe pragmatism, she was overcome by wist.
wist by vesper September 23, 2013
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It’s exactly like the word wait, but spelled differently because some people have issues with proper spelling.
“WIST! I have an idea!!” “WIST isn’t a word” ........ “I’llput it in the goddamn Urban Dictionary”
Wist by NotTheGhostKing June 9, 2021
Related Words
wist • WISTY • wista • wistea • wister • wisteria moon • wistful • Wistaf • Wistah • Wistal
Old English

-To have knowledge
The man wist to the point he knew everything
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Mighty Wist 

A wildly epileptic dog (valley bulldog)
Mighty Wist by Xexdeh October 1, 2020

Whitched Wist 

When someone or something recreates your face but the final result ends up making you look uglier than the wicked witch of the West.
Blaine: I' m gonna draw you.

Michael: Aight just don't make me look like the Whitched Wist.
Blaine: Yeah I got you don't worry.
Whitched Wist by Cronert November 18, 2024

200 pumpy glumpy soul snatcher glizzy gladiator double gawk gawk gorilla grip twisty wisty no Oxygen sucky wucy 

When a male or female gets the life sucked out of them they shit there pants 200 pumpy glumpy soul snatcher glizzy gladiator double gawk gawk gorilla grip twisty wisty no Oxygen sucky wucy
Dude Kendra sucked my soul so hard I shit myself 200 pumpy glumpy soul snatcher glizzy gladiator double gawk gawk gorilla grip twisty wisty no Oxygen sucky wucy
Oh damn dude

wisterbad 

A CS:GO player with a negative k/d bashing their own team.
Subject: "you guys suck."
Team: "wisterbad"
wisterbad by blightttt February 20, 2019
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