Noun: twirl
| Singular | twirl |
| Plural | twirls |
Sample Sentences
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The conductor gave his baton a twirl, and the orchestra began to play.
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When the cock had now crowed for the third time, and the little larks had made their first twirl in the sky, and the infant light appeared in solitary white streaks in the east, then it went hush, hush, hush, through the bushes, and flowers, and stalks; and the hills rang again, and opened, and the little men went down. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 291:]
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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. [1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51:]
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Which was in the main childishness and pettiness, the reason for this was that most of the twirls and the governors had […] [1958, Frank Norman, Bang to rights: an account of prison life, page 67:]
Nouns inflected like twirl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Icelandic Nouns '
þyrill'.
Verbs referencing "twirl"
German Nouns
Quirl, Old Norse Nouns
þyrill.