Dictionary Entry
whisk
whisk is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A game at cards; whist. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A game at cards; whist.
- 2noun
The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.
- 3noun
A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
- 4noun
A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.
- 5noun
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
- 6noun
An impertinent fellow.
- 7noun
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
- 8noun
To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.
- 9noun
To move with a quick, sweeping motion.
- 10intransitive verb
To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.
- 11noun
a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
- 12noun
a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream
- 13verb
whip with or as if with a wire whisk
"whisk the eggs"
Synonyms
- 14verb
brush or wipe off lightly
- 15verb
move somewhere quickly
"The President was whisked away in his limo"
- 16verb
move quickly and nimbly
"He whisked into the house"
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