| 释义 |
whistwhist /wɪst/ noun [uncountable]   whistOrigin: 1600-1700 whisk ‘whist’ (17-19 centuries); perhaps because the cards are ‘whisked’ or taken away quickly - Consider the card games, whist and bridge.
- I have sometimes wondered if they, Cooper and McMahon ever managed to get together for a rubber of whist or bridge.
- Popular games normally are: whist, rummy, scrabble, draughts, dominoes or poker.
- Psycho was a cross-legged Hindu figure, twenty-two inches high, which played whist with the audience.
- Some played whist, but everyone danced.
- The whist drives for the school - you can take part in the preparations.
- They'd enjoyed a game of snap or whist or gin rummy.
- Tunstall does have a village hall where whist drives and an annual coffee evening are held.
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