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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/ ·Éɪ²õ³Ù /
noun
- a card game for four in which the two sides try to win the balance of the 13 tricks: forerunner of bridge
whist
2/ hwist /
interjection
- a variant of whisht
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of whist1
Origin of whist2
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of whist1
Example Sentences
Also, this is likely the only hip-hop song in history to mention the card game whist.
Bid whist, for our generation, was the national Black pastime.
When the book opens the punctilious Phileas Fogg lives by the clock, his schedule never varying, each day passed almost entirely at London’s Reform Club, where he reads the newspapers, dines and plays whist.
She did not appear when we afterwards went up to Miss Havisham’s room, and we four played at whist.
Contractors also discovered a hat worn by Yamen Cafe staff members, a whist book and a packet of playing cards.
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