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Whit vs Whist - What's the difference?

whit | whist |

As nouns the difference between whit and whist

is that whit is the season of whitsuntide while whist is any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.

As an adjective whist is

silent.

As a verb whist is

to hush or silence; to still.

As an interjection whist is

silence! quiet! hush! shhh!.

whit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
    • He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit .
  • * 1602 : (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 2
    • Not a whit .
  • * 1917 , Incident by

    • Synonyms

    * (smallest part imaginable) bit, iota, jot, scrap * See also .

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    whist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
  • Sessions of playing the card game.

    • Derived terms

    * German whist * solo whist

    See also

    * (wikipedia "whist")

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • silent

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hush or silence; to still.
    • (Spenser)
  • To become silent.
    • (Surrey)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Silence! Quiet! Hush! Shhh!
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1860 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=anonymous , title=Heroes and Hunters of the West , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=… for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist ” from the girl, warned them of present danger. }}

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