Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A handheld kitchen utensil with rotating blades for beating, whipping, or mixing.
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- noun A
kitchen utensil that usesrotating blades tobeat eggs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- noun a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream
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Examples
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My stand mixer makes a mean meringue, but that eggbeater is perfect for whipping a single egg white to fold into grandma’s favorite tapioca pudding.
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He will insist that in some fantastic way his Auntie Flossie’s death is mixed up with our eggbeater, which is what we ambiguously call our magnetic fuse.”
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It was my own tool and I used it whenever I could: a plastic eggbeater.
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I make whipped cream all the time with my eggbeater so I assumed that a meringue could hardly be all that more work.
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With big blue eyes the size of saucers and blond hair that looked like it was combed with an eggbeater, she was a whirlwind in motion.
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Highlight two: The set becomes a steampunk amusement park, full of complex and beautiful motion, while two of the balancing brothers perform in and around a giant apparatus -- the 'Wheel of Death' -- which looks like a cross between a French Horn and an eggbeater.
Rita Houston: Cirque du Zarkana: Not Your Father's Rock Opera
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Garden Tuesday – 08/18/09 - Bean Bounty eggbeater silence does not make the heart grow fonder.
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Tired of spinning the eggbeater, I took my meringue and folded it into the whipped cream and berries.
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Highlight two: The set becomes a steampunk amusement park, full of complex and beautiful motion, while two of the balancing brothers perform in and around a giant apparatus -- the 'Wheel of Death' -- which looks like a cross between a French Horn and an eggbeater.
Rita Houston: Cirque du Zarkana: Not Your Father's Rock Opera
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With big blue eyes the size of saucers and blond hair that looked like it was combed with an eggbeater, she was a whirlwind in motion.
bilby commented on the word eggbeater
Chapter 11, in which WordNet goes on an elementary school excursion to the airport.
October 31, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eggbeater
I like WeirdNet #4 as well. "It was Col. Mustard in the Hall with the Eggbeater!"
December 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word eggbeater
Silly c_b! "It was Col. Mustard in the wifebeater with the Eggbeater!"
December 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word eggbeater
I never understood that term, Marlon Brando notwithstanding.
December 28, 2008