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whip noun •he would use a whip on his dogs:lash, scourge, strap, belt, rod, bullwhip | historical cat-o'-nine-tails.▶verb 1.•he whipped the boy:flog, scourge, flagellate, lash, strap, belt, thrash, beat, tan someone's hide. 2.•whip the cream:whisk, beat. 3.•she whipped her listeners into a frenzy:rouse, stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, fire up, get someone going, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke. 4.informal •he whipped around the corner. See dash (sense 1 of the verb). 5.informal •then she whipped out a revolver:pull, whisk, pluck, jerk.WORD NOTE whipper From As You Like It, Act III, Scene ii. Rosalind: “Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” Shakespeare coined about half the words in modern English, why not add one more? I propose using whipper to mean “someone helplessly implicated in the irrationality of love.” — DAConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |