whisk

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

Schneebesen

Schaumschläger

wischen

flitzen

abfegen

abkehren

ausfegen

auskehren

beseitigen

fegen

hinausjagen

hinwegfegen

kehren

schippen

vertreiben

vor sich herfegen

wegfegen

Rührbesen

Quirl

schlagen

abbürsten

ablehnen

abweisen

beiseite schieben

nicht beachten

zurückweisen

überhaupt nicht berücksichtigen

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/(h)wɪsk/

Etymologie (Englisch)

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.