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dast en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dæst/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (Northern-US, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of dare; dares.
    form of dare
    • nastya You don’t say! How dast I! 1902, Maxim Gorki, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, Na dne [The Lowest Depths], quoted in Bernard G. Guerney: A Treasury of Russian Literature. London: Bodley Head [1948], pp. 718–787., section IV, page 780:
    • 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.
    • Nobody dast blame this man. 1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, II.ix:
  2. (Northern-US) dare (infinitive).
    • They don't dast. 1951, Louis L'Amour, The Rustlers of West Fork, page 96: