whirly
Americannoun
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whirlies
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Origin of whirly
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By the 1970s, even the Queen was wearing looser-fitting evening gowns with drapey arms and "swirly whirly" patterns.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Personal whirly copters dart among glinting steel towers, everything looks like the Seattle Space Needle, and nothing is crummy or made out of wood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fred smiled, remembering the time Scruffy saved a cat stuck in a toilet bowl and then accidentally flushed himself into a swirly whirly.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
“And after that house went whirly off into the sky, dipped down agin and tuck Miss Winnie’s house—and her in it!”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Skateboarders performed soaring whirlies in front of a freshly painted Shepard Fairey mural of Angelou’s beaming face as food vendors shuffled by pushing carts stacked with fresh mangoes on ice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2019
Since the Justices so frequently gave with one hand while taking away with the other, anyone intent on labeling the Burger Court has had to fight off a case of the whirlies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, the radius of activity of these whirlies was strictly limited; objects directly in their path only being disturbed.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
Towards evening, the air about the Hut was quite still except for gusts from the north and rather frequent "whirlies."
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
Above the glacier ahead whirlies, out-lined in high revolving columns of snow, "stalked about" in their wayward courses.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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