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.”
Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945
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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.
Aunt Margaret's strawberry delight | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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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.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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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 Rita Houston 2011
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Garden Tuesday – 08/18/09 - Bean Bounty eggbeater silence does not make the heart grow fonder.
Spicy pickled okra | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Tired of spinning the eggbeater, I took my meringue and folded it into the whipped cream and berries.
Aunt Margaret's strawberry delight | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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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 Rita Houston 2011
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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.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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