wit

[wit]

noun

1) (humour; the ability to express oneself in an amusing way: His plays are full of wit; I admire his wit.) duhovitost

2) (a person who expresses himself in a humorous way, tells jokes etc: He's a great wit.) duhovitež

3) (common sense, inventiveness etc: He did not have the wit to defend himself.) zdrav razum

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- witless

- -witted
- witticism
- witty
- wittily
- wittiness
- at one's wits' end
- keep one's wits about one
- live by one's wits
- frighten/scare out of one's wits
- out of one's wits

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I [wit]

noun

pamet, razumnost, bistrost, inteligenca, razsodnost; duševna sposobnost; zdrav razum; duhovitost, domiselnost; duhovitež, duhovit, odrezav človek, inteligentna oseba, duhovna veličina

flash of wit — duhovit domislek

the five wits obsolete petero čutov

a conversation sparkling with wit — od duhovitosti se iskreč razgovor

to be at one's wit's end — ne vedeti kako in kaj, ne se znajti

I am at my wit's end — sem pri kraju s svojo pametjo, ne znam si več pomagati

to be out of one's wits — izgubiti pamet (glavo), ne biti pameten

he has his wits about him — on si zna vedno pomagati, prisotnost duha ga nikoli ne zapusti, on je vedno buden (oprezen)

bought wit is best — izguba izmodri človeka

to have wit to — imeti dovolj pameti za (da...)

he has not the wit to see... — nima toliko pameti, da bi uvidel...

it taught me wit — to me je spametovalo

he sets up for a wit — dela se duhovitega

to live by one's wits — živeti od svoje prebrisanosti (prevar, goljufij), več ali manj pošteno se prebijati skozi živijenje

II [wit]

obsolete transitive verb & intransitive verb (sed. čas I (he) wot, preterite in past participle wist, — sed. deležnik witting) vedeti

God wot — bogve

I wot — dobro vem

to wit — to je, namreč; kot sledi; in to