whisk

/wɪsk/

/hwɪsk/

/wɪsk/

Other forms: whisked; whisking; whisks

When you whisk something, you stir it quickly and lightly with a kitchen tool also called a whisk. Grab that whisk and whisk those eggs!

Most whisks have long handles and curved wire loops, a design that makes it easy to beat air into ingredients as you whisk them. Before the metal whisk was invented in the mid-19th century, cooks used bundles of twigs to whisk batters. You can also use whisk to mean "move quickly," so you might say, "Her parents managed to whisk her off to school before she was truly awake."

Definitions of whisk

1. noun

   a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream
   type of:

   mixer

   a kitchen utensil that is used for mixing foods
2. verb

   whip with or as if with a wire whisk
   “whisk the eggs”

   synonyms: whip

   type of:

   beat, scramble

   stir vigorously
3. verb

   move quickly and nimbly
   “He whisked into the house”

   type of:

   go, locomote, move, travel

   change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
4. verb

   move somewhere quickly
   “The President was whisked away in his limo”

   type of:

   bring, convey, take

   take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
5. noun

   a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
   synonyms: whisk broom

   type of:

   broom

   a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
6. verb

   brush or wipe off lightly
   synonyms: whisk off

   type of:

   pass over, wipe

   rub with a circular motion