Swivelling

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The motion of something that swivels.

    "Around us, groups of girls with short summer dresses hoicked up to tan their milky white thighs sat on thin jackets and aerated the grass with coy swivellings of their spiky heels."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of swivel British, form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"Around us, groups of girls with short summer dresses hoicked up to tan their milky white thighs sat on thin jackets and aerated the grass with coy swivellings of their spiky heels."

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