whisk
- Top 10000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A kitchen tool with a handle and thin loops of wire, used for beating eggs, cream or sauces until they are smooth or full of air.
A metal whisk works much better than a fork for whipping cream.
Hang the whisk on the hook beside the oven, please.
The wires of this old whisk have started to bend outwards.
Common collocations: a balloon whisk · a wire whisk · an electric whisk · beat it with a whisk
Part of: Kitchen utensils, Cooking
Sense 2
- verb
- B2
To beat eggs, cream or a thin mixture very fast with a whisk until it becomes smooth or full of air.
Whisk the sauce until every lump of flour has disappeared.
She whisked the batter for a minute and poured it in.
Whisk the cream slowly at first, or it splashes everywhere.
Common collocations: whisk the eggs · whisk until smooth · whisk in the flour · whisk together
Part of: Kitchen utensils, Cooking
Sense 3 · less common
- verb
- C1
To take someone or something away to another place very quickly.
The waiter whisked our plates away before we had finished eating.
A taxi whisked them off to the airport before dawn.
She whisked the letter out of my hand and left.
Common collocations: whisk away · whisk off · whisk somebody through · whisk out of sight
Part of: Exercise and fitness, Restaurants