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Whisk's overachieving cousin, spinning two blades so your wrist doesn't have to.

means A hand-cranked kitchen tool with rotating blades or beaters used to whip eggs, cream, or batter without manual whisking effort.

from A straightforward compound of 'egg' and 'beater' (one who or that which beats), coined in the 1800s when rotary mechanisms — gears turning a crank into spinning blades — were patented as kitchen labor-savers. The name simply describes the job: a device for beating eggs, no myth required. In American slang the term later got borrowed for sputtering small aircraft and helicopters, whose whirring blades reminded people of the kitchen gadget.

gear mechanism
turning the handle rotates blades faster via gears
1870s invention
patented chaos before electric mixers existed
slang usage
also old pilot slang for helicopters
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