Noun: whist
| Singular | whist |
| Plural | whists |
Sample Sentences
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"We have a loo in College every night-of course that is not every night, but most nights-not a big loo at all, you know, but just a small party of our own. I would almost rather we played whist myself, but the other fellows don't like whist, it's too awfully scientific; and at loo, you know, you can have a bit of a flutter. It helps to pass the time after Hall." [1900, W.E.W. Collins, A Scholar of His College, volume 900, page 151:]
Nouns inflected like whist
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”).
Verbs referencing "whist"
Danish Nouns
whist, French Nouns
whist, Finnish Nouns
visti, Faroese Nouns
vist, Romanian Nouns
vist, German Nouns
Whist.