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Dawdle vs Whisk - What's the difference?

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Dawdle is a related term of whisk.


In lang=en terms the difference between dawdle and whisk

is that dawdle is to move or walk lackadaisically while whisk is to move lightly and nimbly.

As verbs the difference between dawdle and whisk

is that dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time while whisk is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.

As nouns the difference between dawdle and whisk

is that dawdle is a dawdler while whisk is a quick, light sweeping motion or whisk can be (obsolete) the card game whist.

dawdle

English

Verb

(dawdl)
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.}}
  • * Johnson
    • Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
  • To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
    • to dawdle away the whole morning
  • To move or walk lackadaisically.
    • If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
  • * Thackeray
    • We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

    See also

    * dally, dander, dandle, diddle, loaf, piddle, wander, doodle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dawdler.

    • Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs

    whisk

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl) visk According to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quick, light sweeping motion.
    • With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
  • A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
    • He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
  • A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
    • Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
  • A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
    • '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
  • A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
  • A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • My wife in her new lace whisk .
  • (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
    • (Halliwell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
  • In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
  • To move something rapidly and with no warning.
  • * Walpole
    • I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
  • To move lightly and nimbly.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

    References

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The card game whist.