whisk

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A quick, light sweeping motion.
2. A kitchen utensil, now usually made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle (and formerly of twigs), used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
3. A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
4. A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
5. A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
6. A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.

Verb

1. To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
2. In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
3. To move something rapidly and with no warning.
4. To move lightly and nimbly.
5. To move whiskers.

Konsepte

whisk

brush

sweep

whip

wipe off

whisk broom

dash about

wipe

dust

scurry about

flit

whisk off

flash

fly

graze

rake

strike

wipe up

dash

beat

dart

stir

eggbeater

vaccuum

dart away

plunge

scamper away

egg-beater

abduct

carry off

kidnap

rape

ravish

wire

duster

toothpick

wisp

hotfoot

career

fleet

race

streak

travel rapidly

zoom

pass over

skim

swab

swing out

whistle

delete

efface

erase

excise

expunge

rub out

score out

scratch

towel

wipe out

pelt along

run

crease

swob

eggwhisk

stirrer

hit

beater

go

flapper

fly swatter

fly-flap

beat up

broom

feather duster

flick

brush away

agitate

slip

deny

fob off

negative

rebuff

refuse

reject

repudiate

sweep away

sweep up

underrate

stir up

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/(h)wɪsk/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
Cognate with Danish visk, Dutch wis, German Wisch, Latin virga (“rod, switch”), viscus (“entrails”), Lithuanian vizgéti (“to tremble”), Czech věchet (“wisp of straw”), Sanskrit वेष्क (veṣka, “noose”). Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.