different between hist vs whist

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Interjection

hist

1. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
2. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XI,

     "My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"

   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,

     Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 99,

     There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!

Synonyms

• (utterance used to attract someone's attention): psst, hey, yo; see also Thesaurus:hey
• (injunction to be quiet): hush, shh, shush, whist
• (injunction to pay attention): hark

Translations

Noun

hist (plural hists)

1. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
   • 1796, Fanny Burney, Camilla, unnumbered page,

     'A tinker!' repeated Sir Hugh, quite loud, in defiance of the signs and hists! hists! of Camilla, 'good lack! that's a person I should never have thought of!'

Etymology 2

Noun

hist (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of history.

Etymology 3

Verb

hist (third-person singular simple present hists, present participle histing, simple past and past participle histed)

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of hoist.
   • 1952, R. A. Atkinson, Uncle Aaron Peddles a Possum, 2010 [1976], J. Mason Brewer (editor), Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos (Combined edition), page 30,

     When he spy de train a-comin' 'roun' de curve, he hists de hankershuf way up ovuh his haid for hit to stop, an' when de engineer rech de spot whar Unkuh Aaron stannin', he jumps down outen his seat to de groun' an asts Unkuh Aaron de why he stop de train.

Anagrams

• HITs, Tish, hits, iths, shit, sith, this, tish

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• heist, hest

Etymology

From Old Norse hestr.

Noun

hist m

1. horse

Declension

Yola

Alternative forms

• fest

Etymology

From Middle English fyst, from Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.

Noun

hist

1. a fist

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?st, IPA^(key): /w?st/ or enPR: hw?st, IPA^(key): /??st/ (in Scottish English and some English accents)
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: wist (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “what does this have to do with silence”)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

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

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

whist

1. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!

Verb

whist (third-person singular simple present whists, present participle whisting, simple past and past participle whisted)

1. (transitive, rare) To hush, shush, or whisht; to still.
2. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.

Adjective

whist (comparative more whist, superlative most whist)

1. (rare) Silent, husht.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii^[2]:

     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. […]

Anagrams

• Whits, swith, whits, wisht, withs

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Noun

whist m

1. whist

Danish

Etymology

From English whist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vest/, [??esd?]
• Homophones: vidst, vist

Noun

whist c (singular definite whisten, not used in plural form)

1. whist (a card game)

Inflection

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wist/

Noun

whist m (uncountable)

1. whist

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English whist.

Noun

whist m (invariable)

1. whist (card game)