whist

English

Etymology

Middle English whist (“silent”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭst, IPA: /wɪst/, X-SAMPA: /wIst/ or enPR: hwĭst, IPA: /ʍɪst/, X-SAMPA: /WIst/ (in Scottish English and some English accents)
• Rhymes: -ɪst

• Homophone: wist (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whist (plural whists)

1. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
2. Sessions of playing the card game.

Derived terms

• German whist
• solo whist

Translations

card game

• Czech: whist (cs) m
• Dutch: wiezen (nl) n
• Finnish: visti (fi), tuppi (fi)

• Icelandic: vist (is) f
• Macedonian: вист (mk) (víst) m
• Polish: wist (pl) m

See also

• Whist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• whist in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Adjective

whist (comparative more whist, superlative most whist)

1. silent

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To silence; still.
2. (intransitive) To become silent.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Surrey to this entry?)

Interjection

whist

1. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence! Quiet! Hush! Shhh!

   • 1860, anonymous, Heroes and Hunters of the West^[1], edition HTML, 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.

Anagrams

• whits
• wisht

---

Czech

Wikipedia ^cs

Noun

whist m

1. whist

---

French

Etymology

From English

Noun

whist m (usually uncountable)

1. whist

---

Italian

Etymology

From English

Noun

whist m (invariable)

1. whist (card game)