Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A centrifugal machine used for drying sugar, grain, clothes, etc.
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Examples
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The instrument designated above as the whizzer is a thin, flat, pointed piece of wood, painted black and sparkling with the specular iron ore which is sprinkled on the surface; three small pieces of turquoise are inlaid in the wood to represent eyes and mouth.
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 Washington Matthews 1874
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Yesterday Wally and I loaded up our Renault with the motor mower whizzer, spades, forks, rakes, brooms, and drove to five Rose Hill Road.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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I'm sure there's a word in German -- they are a whizzer with those kicky compound nouns -- but none in English for that precise combination.
When raging Jews blog stupidly. CC 2009
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Why she was not told she was being foolish and threatened with a fixed whizzer for Wasting Police Time is quite beyond me, but the ensuing row has at least ensured that it will not be repeated; suffice it to say that there were very good reasons why I preferred sleeping rough to returning home.
One Of Our Airheads Is Missing! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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I'm sure there's a word in German -- they are a whizzer with those kicky compound nouns -- but none in English for that precise combination.
Lions Led by Donkeys Rogers 2006
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I'm sure there's a word in German -- they are a whizzer with those kicky compound nouns -- but none in English for that precise combination.
Lions Led by Donkeys Rogers 2006
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I'm sure there's a word in German -- they are a whizzer with those kicky compound nouns -- but none in English for that precise combination.
Archive 2006-05-28 Rogers 2006
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Pour about a cupful of poppyseeds with 2-3 tbsp of icing sugar into a whizzer/grinder and whizz until you see the colour change to a nice poppyseed grey.
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Pour about a cupful of poppyseeds with 2-3 tbsp of icing sugar into a whizzer/grinder and whizz until you see the colour change to a nice poppyseed grey.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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"Ain't this been a gee-whizzer of a storm?" queried the oil man, holding the two Aleuts at arm's length.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood
whichbe commented on the word whizzer
A rude, punk-rock pony with pink mohawk; always horsing around, constantly ruining things of beauty by peeing on them.
August 9, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word whizzer
I read he's in his fourties, but he won't admit it.
August 9, 2008