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UK
/wˈɜːlɪdʒˌɪɡ/
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VERB
- whirl or spin like a whirligig
NOUN
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a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
he got a bright red top and string for his birthday - a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
How To Use whirligig In A Sentence
- Fun things include making whirligigs, first-place ribbons, preserves, and jams along with staging your own fair.
- The whole whirligig of sights and sounds and bodies rushing forward seemed to be aimed directly at me.
- Finally how fragile it is - choreography that is here today usually is gone tomorrow, lost in either the whirligig of fashion or the roulette-wheel of luck.
- The wide range of works includes quilts, rugs, needlework, paintings, works on paper, weather vanes, whirligigs, decoys, and painted furniture.
- Hellboy takes us to extravagant places of doom replete with giant geared contraptions, blazing electromagnetic whirligigs, and daggers that shoot out from walls and floors: a haunted-house look that is pure fun.
- Most buyers have been delighted by the awkward charms of the animal cutouts nailed to his spinning whirligigs, figures of the red and black devils, crude portraits of Elvis Presley and President Abraham Lincoln.
- By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.
- Behind the cross, crude propeller blades on whirligigs made by local artist R A Miller and planted on Windy Hill, spin and twirl on gusty days.
- Just how the economic whirligig will affect retailers' upfront buys still remains highly subjective.
- Irishman, trundling "that divil of a whirligig," as he disrespectfully called the idolized velocipede; then the wounded hero, supported by the helpful Polly; and Maud brought up the rear in tears, bearing Tom's cap. An Old-Fashioned Girl