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  • noun Plural form of whirlygig.

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Examples

  • Tenfin birds and whirlygigs flew through the trees, shouting out at one another and fighting over places for their nests, food for themselves, mates to bear their children.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • These whirlygigs were working with the winds on Blackbread Dr in the Sea Pines development in Hudson.

    10connects.com Local News 2009

  • A quarter of you are afraid that you'll end up depending on cool sermon graphics, tricky ideas and other fancy whirlygigs instead of God.

    Church Marketing Sucks 2009

  • As it is, it merely involves John of that ilk lurking at short fine leg, waiting for the high ball as the ever-reliable George Craig wheels away from the Barrasford end with his cunning whirlygigs.

    HX News and Sport 2009

  • No matter what the financial whirlygigs say, gold will now buy more than Enron stocks.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The energy companies throwing hundreds of billions at plastering the countryside with whirlygigs will not be hiring armies of sociologists or 3D animators.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • We have to be grateful to Jonathan David Publishers for making this reference work available, but their editors deserve a kick in their whirlygigs.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 1982

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  • "Testicles."

    September 7, 2008

  • How so?

    September 7, 2008

  • The entire entry in the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is as follows:

    "WHIPT SYLLABUB. ...

    WHIRLYGIGS. Testicles.

    WHISKER. A great lie..."

    (p. WHI)

    September 7, 2008

  • Hmmmm.

    September 7, 2008

  • I thought they were water beetles.

    September 8, 2008