whisk

Signification (English)

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.

Concepts

fouet

fouetter

battre

transporter

balayette

balayer

moussoir

batteur

plaisantin

rejeter

faire la sourde oreille

transporter rapidement

Synonyms

brush

whip

sweep

wipe off

whisk broom

wipe

dash about

strike

dust

flit

fly

✈️

beat

rake

dart

🎯

graze

whisk off

stir

scurry about

wipe up

dash

💨

flash

go

hit

hotfoot

kidnap

negative

pass over

plunge

race

rape

ravish

rebuff

refuse

reject

repudiate

rub out

run

score out

scratch

skim

slip

stirrer

stir up

streak

swab

sweep away

sweep up

swob

toothpick

scamper away

towel

underrate

whistle

wipe out

wire

wisp

zoom

brush away

eggwhisk

fly swatter

swing out

vaccuum

fly-flap

egg-beater

pelt along

dart away

delete

travel rapidly

abduct

agitate

beater

beat up

broom

🧹

career

carry off

crease

deny

duster

efface

eggbeater

erase

excise

expunge

feather duster

flapper

fleet

flick

fob off

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/(h)wɪsk/

Étymologie (English)

Cognate with danois: visk

Cognate with néerlandais: wis

Cognate with allemand: Wisch

Cognate with latin: virga

Cognate with lituanien: vizgéti

Cognate with tchèque: věchet

Cognate with sanskrit: वेष्क

Cognate with ancien anglais: wiscian

In summary

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.