whist

• 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)

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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.

• German whist
• long whist
• Russian whist
• short whist
• solo whist

• whist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• whist in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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

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.

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.

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

whist (comparative more whist, superlative most whist)

1. (rare) Silent, husht.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii:

     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. […]

• Whits, swith, whits, wisht, withs

Borrowed from English whist.

whist m

1. whist

Borrowed from English whist.

• IPA^(key): /wist/

whist m (uncountable)

1. whist

• “whist” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English whist.

whist m (invariable)

1. whist (card game)