whist

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge. countable,uncountable
  2. A session of playing this card game. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To hush or shush; to still. rare,transitive
    — o was the Titaness put downe and whist
  2. To become silent. intransitive,rare
    — The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue
形容词 adj.
  1. Silent, hushed. rare
    — 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.[…]
感叹词 intj.
  1. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush! alt-of,alternative
    — … for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.
  2. 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.

词形变化

whists plural whists present,singular,third-person whisting participle,present whisted participle,past whisted past more whist comparative most whist superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
bid whist bridge whist Chinese whist domino whist dummy whist German whist honeymoon whist long whist Minnesota whist Norwegian whist Russian whist Scotch whist Scots whist short whist solo whist
相关词
Whist in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
Alteration of whisk, perhaps so called from the notion of “whisking” up cards after each trick. Altered perhaps on assumption that the word was an interjection invoking silence, by influence of whist (“silent”).
词源 2
From Middle English whist (“silent”), possibly onomatopoeic.
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