dast

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

• IPA^(key): /dæst/

dast

1. (US, dialect) third-person singular simple present indicative of dare; dares.
   • 1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, II.ix:

     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.

2. (US, dialect) dare (infinitive).
   • 1951, Louis L'Amour, The Rustlers of West Fork, page 96:

     They don't dast.

• DATs, dat's, ADTs, ATDs, stad, tads, DTAs, SADT

dast

1. second-person singular past indicative of detta

Cognate with Persian دَسْت (dast).

dast

1. hand

Cognate with Tajik даст (dast).

dast

1. hand