whisk¹ /(h)wisk/

1. To move quickly and lightly
2. To sweep rapidly
3. To beat (egg whites, cream, etc) with a quick, light movement

To move nimbly and rapidly

1. A light rapid sweeping motion
2. A small hand-held utensil for beating or whisking eggs, etc
3. A small bundle or tuft of anything used as a brush
4. (also fly whisk) a flexible implement for swatting flies
5. A type of women's neckerchief or large collar worn in the later 17c (historical)
6. A hairlike appendage, eg on an insect
7. A tuft
8. A panicle esp of millet
9. The common millet

whisˈker noun

Someone or something that whisks

whisˈking adjective

Moving briskly

whisˈky-frisˈky adjective

Flighty

whisk² /(h)wisk/

• light pollution
• light-proof
• light railway
• light railways
• lights
• lightship
• lightships
• light show
• light shows
• lightsome
• lightsomely
• lightsomeness
• lightsomenesses
• lights out
• light-spirited
• measliness
• measlinesses
• measling
• measly
• measurability
• measurable
• measurableness
• measurablenesses
• measurably
• measure