名詞 whist:

1. a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six
   同義詞：long whist, short whist

1. There are six of us two too many for a game of whist.
   我們有六個人--要打惠斯特牌就多了兩個人。
2. Bridge, poker and whist are card-games.
   橋牌、 撲克和惠斯特都是紙牌游戲。
3. Are you in for this game of whist?
   這場惠斯特橋牌你參加嗎？
4. Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist.
   最高牌撲克游戲例如橋牌或惠斯特中最大的四張或五張牌，尤指么點、國王、王后、杰克及王牌中的10

whist

n.Games （名詞）【游戲】
A card game ancestral to bridge, played with a full deck by two teams of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over six won by each team.
惠斯特牌：橋牌的一種原始形式，玩時各由兩位玩手組成的兩方玩一副紙牌，最后所發(fā)的一張牌為王牌，玩時以四張牌為一圈進行，第一圈中各方所贏得的每個點都被算作'分

來源：
Alteration perhaps influenced by the exclamation whist [silence!]
可能受感嘆詞 whist的影響 [安靜!]
of obsolete and dialectal whisk
廢語和方言 whisk的變化
perhaps from whisk
可能源自 whisk