WordNet
short whist
n. 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 [syn: whist, long whist]
Usage examples of "short whist".
Pidger, who played short whist, and was supposed to have been enamoured of her.
The first rubber of short whist was won by the major and his partner: with the bets it amounted to eighteen pounds.
He spurned the notion, saying ungraciously that his friends would think it curst flat to be stuck down in the country with nothing to do all day, and nothing to enliven the evenings but short whist, or half-guinea commerce.