whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭp
ipa: /wɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
enpr: hwĭp
ipa: /ʍɪp/
Forms: form: whips
form: whipping
form: whipped
form: whipped
Etymology: From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjaną (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root वेप् (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibrō (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).
The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh.
The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), 18th century hunting terminology.
Senses: examples: text: The rider whipped the horse.
glosses: To hit with a whip.
examples: text: I whipped her with a newspaper.
glosses: To hit with any flexible object.
examples: text: She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
ref: 2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel:
glosses: To defeat, as in a contest or game.
examples: text: to whip eggs or cream
glosses: To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
examples: text: He whipped the department into shape.
glosses: To urge into action or obedience.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
examples: 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises
Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
examples: text: to whip a ruffle
text: In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
ref: [1716], [John] Gay, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
examples: text: He whipped the ball at me.
text: Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
examples: text: whipping its rough surface for a trout
ref: 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac:
glosses: To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
examples: text: The pennants whipped in the wind.
glosses: To snap back and forth like a whip.
examples: text: The wind whipped through the valley.
text: Two Friends, Travelling, met a Bear upon the way; the one Whips up a Tree, and the Other Throws himself Flat upon the Ground.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To move very fast.
examples: text: She,[…] in a hurry, whips up her Darling under her Arm.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
ref: 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann:
glosses: To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
examples: text: They would whip me with their fine wits.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
examples: text: to whip wheat
glosses: To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
Synonyms: sense: to move very fast
word: flail
word: thrash
word: thresh
word: belt
word: birch
word: cut
word: feague
word: flagellate
word: flog
word: knout
word: lash
word: lather
word: quirt
word: scourge
word: scutch
word: slash
word: strap
word: stripe
word: whip
word: whoop
word: yark
Hypernyms: word: attack
word: beat
word: drive
word: punish
Hyponyms: word: bullwhip
word: cowhide
word: dogwhip
word: hide
word: horsewhip
word: kurbash
word: rawhide
word: switch
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: pistol-whip
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: pussywhip
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-around
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-arse
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-belly
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-belly vengeance
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip down
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip in
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip into shape
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip it on
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip it on someone
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-jack
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip off
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip out
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whipped cream
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whipped vote
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whipper
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whipping cream
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-poor-will
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip-round
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip some skull on
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip the cat
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip the pants off
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip through
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip together
sense: Terms derived from whip (verb)
word: whip up
Related terms: ghost ride the whip