Sekirov Dictionary

whist

/wɪst/

noun 2
verb 2
adjective 1
exclamation 1
forms 5

noun2

Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
A session of playing this card game.

verb2

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(rare) To hush or shush; to still.
- o was the Titaness put downe and whist — 1596
•
(rare) To become silent.
- The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue — 1557

adjective1

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(rare) Silent, hushed.
- 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.[…] — 1610

exclamation1

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Onomatopoeia for slicing.
- Well! she laid down her little golden head without fear; and whist! down came the axe, and it was off. So the mother wiped the axe and laughed. — 1890

forms

whisted · whisting · whists · more whist · most whist

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