wis
Multiple Entries:wis Wis.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wis/wɪs/
▶verb (wisses, wissing, wissed) archaic know well.
– origin C16: orig. in I wis, alt. of the obs. adverb iwis ‘certainly’, erroneously interpreted as ‘I know’ (assoc. with wist, past tense of wit2).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Wis.
▶abbreviation Wisconsin.
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