whist

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wĭst, IPA(key): /wɪst/ or enPR: hwĭst, IPA(key): /ʍɪst/ (in Scottish English and some English accents)
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • Homophone: wist (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

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Noun

whist (countable and uncountable, plural whists)

  1. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
  2. A session of playing this card game.
Derived terms
  • German whist
  • long whist
  • Russian whist
  • short whist
  • solo whist
Translations

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Etymology 2

From Middle English whist (“silent”), possibly onomatopoeic.

Interjection

whist

  1. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
    • 1860, anonymous, Heroes and Hunters of the West‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      … for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.

Verb

whist (third-person singular simple present whists, present participle whisting, simple past and past participle whisted)

  1. (transitive, rare) To hush, shush, or silence; to still.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
  2. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
    • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tempest:
      Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Surrey to this entry?)

Adjective

whist (comparative more whist, superlative most whist)

  1. (rare) Silent.

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Noun

whist m

  1. whist

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wist/

Noun

whist m (uncountable)

  1. whist

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Noun

whist m (invariable)

  1. whist (card game)
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