dast

/dæst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

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"Nobody dast blame this man."
"Damon Runyon, The Lily of St. Pierre So I only go to Good Time Charley's to talk with him, and to sing in quartet with him. […] But just before five o'clock it is okay, as only the hostesses are there, and of course none of them dast to join in our singing, or Good Time Charley will run them plumb out of the joint."
"nastya You don’t say! How dast I!"
"They don't dast."

Variant of darst, from Middle English darst, from Old English dearst.

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How do you pronounce dast?

The recorded pronunciation is /dæst/.

What does dast mean?

Where does dast come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

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