horsewhip
noun, verb
horsewhip is a noun meaning “A whip for use on horses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-S-E-W-H-I-P, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of horsewhip is horsewhips.
What does horsewhip mean?
noun
- 1
A whip for use on horses.
verb
- 1
To flog or lash (someone or something) with a horsewhip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce horsewhip?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-horsewhip.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of horsewhip
- horsewhips plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- horse whip
- horse-whip
- horsewhipping participle, present
- horsewhipped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is horsewhip?
Horsewhip appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Horsewhip in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense whip used on horses:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does horsewhip come from?
From horse + whip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).