Definitions for whist

whist whist

Spelling: [hwist, wist]
IPA: /ʰwɪst, wɪst/

Whist is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in whist (histw).

Definitions for whist

noun

  1. a card game, an early form of bridge, but without bidding.
  2. Chiefly Irish. silence:

adjective

  1. hushed; silent; still.

interjection

  1. hush! silence! be still!

verb (used with object)

  1. British Dialect. to silence.

verb (used without object)

  1. British Dialect. to be or become silent.

Origin of whist

1655-65; earlier whisk, perhaps identical with whisk, though sense relationship uncertain

Examples for whist

At this a party of reverend fathers were busily occupied at whist.

De Vaudemont—it is a good name,—perhaps, too, he plays at whist.

After dinner, they sat down to whist, of which Miss Vavasor was very fond.

My godfather, M. Meydieu, my aunt, and my mother were just beginning a game of whist.

There the night was spent in whist, faro, suppers, and political consultations.

"I was asking about Lady Blennerbore's whist," interposed Mrs. Kennyfeck.

They told me up at Delhi that you hadn't your equal at whist or billiards.

If she had the ace of trumps in her hand at whist, she wouldn't say anything, child.

Some was back under the awnin' and others was down stairs, playin' whist.

Vaudemont, you are bolder in hunting, they tell me, than you are at whist.

Word Value for whist
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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