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▪ I. whisking, vbl. n.|ˈhwɪskɪŋ|
[f. whisk v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb whisk, in various senses.
a1553Udall Royster D. ii. iv. (Arb.) 37 Is all your delite and ioy In whiskyng and ramping abroade like a Tom boy? 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido ii. C 3, The crye of beasts, the ratling of the windes, Or whisking of these leaues. a1625Fletcher Noble Gent. v. i, With the whisking of my sword about. 1668Dryden Even. Love i. i, The whisking of a Silk-Gown, and the rash of a Tabby-Pettycoat. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Whisking, is also switching; ‘there will be whisking for't’. 1797E. Inchbald Wives as they were ii. i. 30 The whisking of a woman's gown made me give a sudden start! 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xlix, A rattling of tin mugs, a whisking of brooms. 1876R. Broughton Joan i. i, A herd of deer..trooping from one glade to another, with a tossing of great horns and whisking of tiny tails.
▪ II. ˈwhisking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That whisks, in various senses: see the verb.
1522Skelton Why not to Court 1161, I suppose that he is Of Ieremy the whyskynge rod, The flayle, the scourge of almighty God. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 637 With whisking broom they brush and sweep. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 268 This whisking tail of the dragon..may cast down some doctors of the church.
†b. Of the wind: Blowing briskly, forcibly, or freshly. Obs.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 156 A litle winde in a moystie day, stoppeth a shafte more than a good whiskynge wynde in a clere daye. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 817 As swiftly whirling as the whisking winde. 1635Swan Spec. Mundi v. §2. (1643) 171 If the exhalation be little, tenuous or thin, then we have onely a pleasant whisking wind,..by which the aire is gently moved. 1697in Nat. Hist. Irel. (1726) 113 The air was somewhat troubled with little whisking winds, seeming to meet contrary ways.
c. Of a person: Moving actively, brisk, lively, smart. slang or colloq. ? Obs.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl I 1, What are your whisking gallants to our husbands. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 40. (1713) II. 2 If you talk of Rubbers and Whiskers,..he's a whisking Rubber for you;..he can rub one Man into two. 1824Carlyle Let. to Miss Welsh 23 June, Captain Smith was..brisk,..whisking, smart of speech.
2. Great, excessive, ‘bouncing’, ‘whopping’. slang or colloq. (now only dial.).
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 166 They have whisking water-works for evacuation. 1681Hickeringill News fr. Colchester Wks. 1716 I. 394 With what astonishment the People..were struck, when they read..this Whisking Lye. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Rousing Lie, a whisking great one. 1792Burns Willie's Wife ii, A whiskin' beard about her mou'. |