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View synonyms for whist
whist
1[ wist, hwist ]
noun
- a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.
whist
2[ hwist, wist ]
interjection
- hush! silence! be still!
adjective
- hushed; silent; still.
noun
- Chiefly Irish. silence:
Hold your whist.
verb (used without object)
- British Dialect. to be or become silent.
verb (used with object)
- British Dialect. to silence.
whist
1/ hwist /
whist
2/ wɪst /
noun
- a card game for four in which the two sides try to win the balance of the 13 tricks: forerunner of bridge
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whist1
1655–65; earlier whisk, perhaps identical with whisk, though sense relationship uncertain
Origin of whist2
1350–1400, Middle English; imitative
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Word History and Origins
Origin of whist1
C17: perhaps changed from whisk , referring to the sweeping up or whisking up of the tricks
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Example Sentences
One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.
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The older people had always played bzique or whist, but rather somnolently of an evening.
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Honours are reckoned differently from whist, and on a scale which is somewhat involved.
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I am vastly complaisant, amuse myself in Routes and private parties and play shilling Whist with the most edifying resignation.
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It is not advisable to adopt any of the recent whist methods of giving information.
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