different between whist vs whisht

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)

English

Alternative forms

• wheesht
• whish
• whist

Interjection

whisht

1. (Irish and British, chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Shush, silence, be quiet!
   • 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter Nine,^[1]

     “You must have loved him very much,” she said.

     “Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […] ”

2. A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Scots

Alternative forms

• wheesht

Interjection

whisht

1. a call for silence, hush!

Verb

whisht (third-person singular present whishts, present participle whishtin, past whishtit, past participle whishtit)

1. to call for silence, to say whisht
2. (transitive) to silence (someone)
3. (intransitive) to be silent

Noun

whisht (plural whishts)

1. (usually negative) a slight sound, a whisper
2. (rare, poetic) silence

Derived terms

• keep one's whisht (“to hold one's tongue”)

Adjective

whisht (not comparable)

1. (archaic) hushed, quiet

References

• “Whisht, interj., v., n., adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC