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Twirl
Definitions
- 1 A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
- 2 the act of rotating rapidly wordnet
- 3 Any rotating movement; a spin.
"The conductor gave his baton a twirl, and the orchestra began to play."
- 4 a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight wordnet
- 5 A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
"Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry."
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- 6 A prison guard. slang
"Which was in the main childishness and pettiness, the reason for this was that most of the twirls and the governors had […]"
- 1 To perform a twirl. intransitive
- 2 cause to spin wordnet
- 3 To rotate rapidly. transitive
"See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel."
- 4 turn in a twisting or spinning motion wordnet
- 5 To twist round. transitive
"He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation."
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- 6 To pitch.
"When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked."
Etymology
Of Scandinavian origin, akin to Norwegian Nynorsk tvirla, Old High German dweran (German zwirlen, quirlen), Dutch dwarrelen and Icelandic þyrill; all from Proto-Germanic *þwirilaz (“stirring-stick, whisk”), *þweraną (“to stir”). Or, an alteration of tirl (“to twist”), with influence from whirl.
Of Scandinavian origin, akin to Norwegian Nynorsk tvirla, Old High German dweran (German zwirlen, quirlen), Dutch dwarrelen and Icelandic þyrill; all from Proto-Germanic *þwirilaz (“stirring-stick, whisk”), *þweraną (“to stir”). Or, an alteration of tirl (“to twist”), with influence from whirl.
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