Plod vs Whisk - What's the difference?
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A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Part One, Chapter 1
** I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
To trudge over or through.
To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
* Drayton
the police, police officers
(UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
A quick, light sweeping motion.
A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
* Samuel Pepys
(archaic) An impertinent fellow.
To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
* J. Fletcher
In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
To move something rapidly and with no warning.
* Walpole
To move lightly and nimbly.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
In intransitive terms the difference between plod and whisk
is that plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over) while whisk is to move lightly and nimbly.In transitive terms the difference between plod and whisk
is that plod is to trudge over or through while whisk is to move something rapidly and with no warning.In obsolete terms the difference between plod and whisk
is that plod is a puddle while whisk is the card game whist.plod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(-)- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .
Verb
(plodd)- plodding schoolmen
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (English Citations of "plod")Etymology 2
From (etyl) plod. Cognate with (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (PC Plod)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (the police) see * (police officer) seewhisk
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) viskAccording 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)- With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- My wife in her new lace whisk .
- (Halliwell)
Verb
(en verb)- He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
- I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.