whizzer
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Origin of whizzer
Example Sentences
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Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
"Hell!" exclaimed one man, intolerantly; "I reckon she's a whizzer!"
From The Trail Horde by Seltzer, Charles Alden
Shucks," he sneered, winking piratically at his brother-culprit; "she's tryin' to run a whizzer in on us.
From The Trail Horde by Seltzer, Charles Alden
The washer is followed by a whizzer, which is an apparatus intended to free the berry by purely mechanical means from superfluous moisture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
"Dutchy's trying to run a whizzer," he remarked, cutting a defiant gash clean across the second pie.
From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.
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