Noun: whisk
| Singular | whisk |
| Plural | whisks |
Sample Sentences
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With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
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He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
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Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
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I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
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My wife in her new lace whiske. [1665 March 21 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “March 12th, 1664–1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like whisk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English whisk, borrowed from Old Norse visk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz, *wiskō (“bundle of hay, wisp”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys-.
2. Cognates
3. 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”).
4. Compare also Old English wiscian (“to plait”), granwisc (“awn”).
5. The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound; compare the same development in whip and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. See: Middle English Nouns '
whisk', Danish Nouns '
visk', Dutch Nouns '
wis', German Nouns '
Wisch', Latin Nouns '
virga', Czech Nouns '
věchet', Old English Nouns '
wiscian'.
Verbs referencing "whisk"
Galician Nouns
guizo, German Nouns
Wisch, Portuguese Nouns
guiço.