Whist

//wɪst// adj, intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Silent, hushed. rare

    "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.[…]"

Intj
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush! alt-of, alternative

    "… for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six wordnet
  3. 3
    A session of playing this card game. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To hush or shush; to still. rare, transitive

    "o was the Titaness put downe and whist"

  2. 2
    To become silent. intransitive, rare

    "The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Alteration of whisk, perhaps so called from the notion of “whisking” up cards after each trick. Altered perhaps on assumption that the word was an interjection invoking silence, by influence of whist (“silent”).

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Etymology 4

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

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