different between whist vs whits

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

Noun

whits

1. plural of whit

Anagrams

• swith, whist, wisht, withs