whisk

Etymology 1
, from, from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬,.

The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in and onomatopoeias such as  and.

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.
 * 1) A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
 * 2) A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
 * 3) A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
 * 1) A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Czech: mrsknutí
 * Finnish:, huiskaus
 * Galician: varredela
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, viftning
 * Welsh: chwifiad


 * Arabic: مِخْفَقَة
 * Belarusian: збіва́лка
 * Bulgarian: бърка́лка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 𢪎蛋器, 蛋𢪎
 * Mandarin: 打蛋器
 * Czech: metla, metlička
 * Danish: piskeris
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: trello,
 * Georgian: სათქვეფელა, სადღვებელა
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þeytari
 * Irish: greadtóir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 泡立て器
 * Korean: 거품기
 * Luxembourgish: Schnéibiesem
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: visp
 * Polish: ubijaczka,
 * Portuguese:, fuê
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: pjenjača, pjenača , mijèšalica / méšalica,
 * Slovak:, metlička
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, çırpma teli
 * Ukrainian: ві́ничок колоті́вка, збива́лка
 * Vietnamese: cái đánh trứng
 * Welsh: chwisg


 * Bulgarian: метли́чка
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, visk
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: bascullo,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: метли́чка
 * Finnish: huisku, pölyhuisku
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ві́ничок
 * Welsh:

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) * July 3, 1769,, letter to the Earl of Strafford
 * I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
 * 1)  To move lightly and nimbly.
 * 2)  To move whiskers.
 * 1)  To move something rapidly and with no warning.
 * 2) * July 3, 1769,, letter to the Earl of Strafford
 * I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
 * 1)  To move lightly and nimbly.
 * 2)  To move whiskers.
 * 1)  To move whiskers.
 * 1)  To move whiskers.
 * 1)  To move whiskers.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: anazar,, remexer
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: vispe
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 攪打
 * Czech: šlehat
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: anazar,
 * German:
 * Maori: kōheri, kōheriheri, tāwhiuwhiu
 * Norman: d'battre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: vispe, piske
 * Nynorsk: vispe
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sguab
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:


 * Finnish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
So called from the rapid action of sweeping the cards off the table after a trick has been won.

Noun

 * 1)  The card game whist.

Numeral

 * 1) five