单词 | egg-beater |
释义 | egg-beatern. 1. An implement or appliance used for beating eggs. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1828 |
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