Meaning

noun an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping

noun a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline

noun a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit

originFrom 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 *wippōną (“to move back and forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to shake; to swing”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the…

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