Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tea whisk

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

Syllables
tea whisk
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kitchen utensil shaped and used like a shaving brush but typically made of bamboo rather than badger hair and manipulated above matcha to dissolve it and make it foam.

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).

Inflected Forms

tea whisks (plural) tea-whisk (alternative) teawhisk (alternative)

Synonyms

chasen matcha whisk chaxian

Questions

What does tea whisk mean?
A kitchen utensil shaped and used like a shaving brush but typically made of bamboo rather than badger hair and manipulated above matcha to dissolve it and make it foam.
Where does tea whisk come from?
Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).

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