dummy whist

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   a form of whist with three players; four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up

   Broaderwhist

Questions about dummy whist

What does dummy whist mean?

dummy whist means "a form of whist with three players; four hands are dealt with the hand opposite the dealer being face up".

Is dummy whist a common word?

dummy whist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.