whisk

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Beat the flour into the cream with a wire whisk, then carefully stir this mixture into the casserole.

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  1. transitive verb To move or cause to move with quick light sweeping motions: whisked crumbs off the table; whisked the children away.
  2. transitive verb To whip (eggs or cream).
  3. intransitive verb To move lightly, nimbly, and rapidly.
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  • Go away The brush moved whisk, whisk, back and forth until his cuticles bled. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • What is it Tis the land of Fancy, and is of that pleasant kind that, when you tire of it--whisk!--you clap the leaves of this book together and 'tis gone, and you are ready for everyday life, with no harm done And now I lift the curtain that hangs between here and No-man's-land. —  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Tick-Tick handed me a bowl and a whisk, and pointed at the milk bottle. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • Don't worry it doesn't have to be a big flash one but could be an electric whisk, one of those little soup-stick things or even one of the old fashioned cog-driven ones. —  The Guardian World News
  • Now, if they can do something for the whisk attachment, I'll really be thrilled. beaterblade. com for stores —  Avenue Vine
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whisk:   whisking ·  whisked ·  whisks
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English wisken, of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Prop. *wisk; from Icelandic visk, a wisp of hay, something to wipe with, a rubber, = Swedish viska, a whisk, small broom, = Danish visk, a wisp, rubber, = Dutch wisch = Old High German wisc, Middle High German G. wisch, a whisk, clout; prob. connected with wash. The verb is from the orig. noun; but the noun in the later senses (‘act of whisking,’ etc.) is from the verb.
  2. Prop. wisk (as in dial. use); from Swedish viska, wipe, sponge, also wag the tail,—Danish viske, wipe, rub, sponge, = Old High German wisken, Middle High German G. wischen, wipe, rub; from the noun.
  3. from whisk, v., referring, in the orig. form of the game called “whisk and swabbers,” to the rapid action and the whisking or sweeping of the cards from the table as the tricks were won. There are various other card terms having reference to quick, sweeping action: e. g., ‘sweep the stakes,’ slams, etc. The name whisk, having no very obvious significance after its first application, came to be called whist. See whist.
 

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