to whip up
- phrasal verb
- /wɪp ʌp/
- She decided to whip up some cookies before her friends arrived for the party.
- whip up a meal
- whip up a dish
- whip up dinner
Obviously you saw I decided to whip up a sourdough.
- Obviously you saw I decided to whip up a sourdough.
- Do you have any suggestions on easy meals to whip up?
- But how interesting of a meal could I whip up with these ingredients today, this year, in the next decade of my life?
- So we're going to go ahead and whip up some brown shout out to Santa Claus.
Examples
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We are so, so excited to see what everyone whips up to help those in need!
Blog text (4) -
- Have a seat, I'll whip you up some toast.
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Look, if you want me to, I can whip you up one.
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However, I feel like we can go the extra mile and whip up some fresh double cream and pop that on the top.
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And I can whip up a nice little meal for all of us.
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I'll whip up something in the kitchen.
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I'll whip up some pancakes for everyone else, all right?
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I can't wait to see what magic you whip up in your studio this holiday season.
Blog text (18) -
You just name the evening and I will have our chefs whip up some fine Louisiana cooking.
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"While you're rocking," I said, "why don't I whip us up some lunch?"
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
Prepare a quick meal by mixing ingredients you have
To make a large amount of food for many people with great energy
Mix a few ingredients quickly without much preparation
Make a quick meal often from leftovers
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The cooking sense 'to quickly prepare' is partly inferable from 'whip' (to beat/whisk) and the particle 'up' (signaling completion or intensification), so a learner might guess it involves making something quickly. However, the extension from literal whisking to general, effortless preparation is metaphorical and not fully predictable without exposure, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrasal verb whip up comes from the image of the whip action of quickly beating or stirring food like cream or eggs, with a fast motion that goes up. So, it now means 'to make or cook something quickly with little effort'.