Whist

Whist is a card game. It is like Bridge, which developed from it, a trick-taking game between four players, who form two partnerships.

Whist, being a word little needed in academic writing, is usually a typographical error when seen in a student's work. If you have written 'whist', you probably meant whilst. Whilst is essentially a variant spelling of the conjunction while.

• Whist can also be a form of whisht or wheesht, a (most;y Scots) variant of shush or, most simply, Sh!, an attempt to represent in writing the sound that parents make to young children to remind them to be silent. (This noise is also used by many older groups to younger groups to ask for silence.)