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noun wɪst(h)wɪst mass nounA card game, usually for two pairs of players, in which points are scored according to the number of tricks won. Example sentencesExamples - The whist starts at 9.15 pm and score cards are £3 for adults and £2 for juveniles.
- Players are reminded that whist continues each Sunday evening, commencing at 9 pm.
- After abandoning poker we moved onto knockout whist.
- I was wondering if you would join us in a game of whist.
- Top score at Newtown whist on Saturday was won by Michael Ferris, Castlecomer Ladies Margaret Brennan and Mary Warren.
- The weekly whist held on Monday's in the Day Care Centre is always eagerly awaited.
- For example, when whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.
- It is based on whist and unlike many whist games is probably best suited for 3 players.
- Chess is bound down by ‘fanciful’ rules that do not test the true powers of an analytical mind, as whist does.
- My preferred game is poker but last night we played contract whist.
- He turned his gaze back to Sarah and her friends who were quietly indulging themselves in a game of whist whilst the party was in full swing around them.
- The Narrator compares playing card games such as whist to using analytical powers of the human mind.
- You can't play tennis on your own, or chess or whist or poker.
- If it had not been for Kennedy, Pamela, and Captain Pellew coming to play whist the last few days, he thought he would surely go insane.
- Because Grabowski hated to play cards they were forced into three-handed whist.
- In the twentieth century, bridge has displaced whist as the most popular card game internationally among serious card players.
Origin Mid 17th century (earlier as whisk): perhaps from whisk (with reference to whisking away the tricks); perhaps associated with whist2. Rhymes assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, exist, gist, grist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, tryst, twist, wist, wrist exclamation wɪst(h)wɪst variant spelling of whisht
noun(h)wist(h)wɪst A card game, usually for two pairs of players, in which points are scored according to the number of tricks won. Example sentencesExamples - Because Grabowski hated to play cards they were forced into three-handed whist.
- It is based on whist and unlike many whist games is probably best suited for 3 players.
- My preferred game is poker but last night we played contract whist.
- If it had not been for Kennedy, Pamela, and Captain Pellew coming to play whist the last few days, he thought he would surely go insane.
- The weekly whist held on Monday's in the Day Care Centre is always eagerly awaited.
- For example, when whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.
- He turned his gaze back to Sarah and her friends who were quietly indulging themselves in a game of whist whilst the party was in full swing around them.
- The whist starts at 9.15 pm and score cards are £3 for adults and £2 for juveniles.
- After abandoning poker we moved onto knockout whist.
- I was wondering if you would join us in a game of whist.
- Top score at Newtown whist on Saturday was won by Michael Ferris, Castlecomer Ladies Margaret Brennan and Mary Warren.
- In the twentieth century, bridge has displaced whist as the most popular card game internationally among serious card players.
- The Narrator compares playing card games such as whist to using analytical powers of the human mind.
- Players are reminded that whist continues each Sunday evening, commencing at 9 pm.
- Chess is bound down by ‘fanciful’ rules that do not test the true powers of an analytical mind, as whist does.
- You can't play tennis on your own, or chess or whist or poker.
Origin Mid 17th century (earlier as whisk): perhaps from whisk (with reference to whisking away the tricks); perhaps associated with whist. exclamation(h)wɪst(h)wist variant spelling of whisht
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