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单词 egg-beater
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egg-beatern.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: egg n., beater n.
Etymology: < egg n. + beater n.
1. An implement or appliance used for beating eggs.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > whisk or beater
molinet1648
whisk1666
froth-sticka1706
egg-beater1828
egg-whisk1868
egg-whip1909
whippit1926
1828 E. Leslie Seventy-five Receipts 49 Beat the eggs in a broad shallow pan with a wooden-egg-beater or whisk.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Patent Egg Beaters.
2. = helicopter n. (see also quot. 1946). U.S. slang.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > helicopter or gyrocopter
helicopter1861
automotive1865
gyroplane1907
gyropter1908
gyrocopter1915
egg-beater1937
mixmaster1946
'copter1947
chopper1951
whirlybird1951
1937 Atlantic Jan. 26/1 Pilots of airplanes contemptuously termed autogiros ‘egg beaters’, and the whole idea appeared to be a colossal flop.
1946 Amer. Speech 21 310/1 Egg-beater, a twin-engine training plane, so termed because of the small size of the engines.
1948 Canadian Alpine Jrnl. June 178 One of those strange contraptions known as a helicopter or ‘egg-beater’.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxiv. 156 [Amer. loq.] ‘Egg beaters.’ The two helicopters came in.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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