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- noun Plural form of
whirlygig .
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Examples
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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.
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These whirlygigs were working with the winds on Blackbread Dr in the Sea Pines development in Hudson.
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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.
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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.
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No matter what the financial whirlygigs say, gold will now buy more than Enron stocks.
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The energy companies throwing hundreds of billions at plastering the countryside with whirlygigs will not be hiring armies of sociologists or 3D animators.
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We have to be grateful to Jonathan David Publishers for making this reference work available, but their editors deserve a kick in their whirlygigs.
chained_bear commented on the word whirlygigs
"Testicles."
September 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word whirlygigs
How so?
September 7, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word whirlygigs
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
bilby commented on the word whirlygigs
Hmmmm.
September 7, 2008
mollusque commented on the word whirlygigs
I thought they were water beetles.
September 8, 2008