whip
The origin and history of whip.
Etymology
From Middle English whippen, "to move suddenly", related to Dutch wippen ("to swing or bounce") — the political sense comes from "whipper-in", the huntsman who kept hounds from straying, borrowed into parliamentary slang in the 1700s.
Class of 1700
whip first entered the language around 1700. Other words from the same year:
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