whirligig
/ˈwəːlɪɡɪɡ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwəːlɪɡɪɡ/
whirligig
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
whir - li - gig -> whirligig
Myanmar meaning
ဂျင်။
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- ‘Fun things include making whirligigs, first-place ribbons, preserves, and jams along with staging your own fair.’
- ‘While stopped at a red light, the Mrs. noticed a few strange whirligigs perched atop a billboard.’
- ‘Hellboy takes us to extravagant places of doom replete with giant geared contraptions, blazing electromagnetic whirligigs, and daggers that shoot out from walls and floors: a haunted-house look that is pure fun.’
- ‘From whirligigs to stereoscopes, from toy soldiers to toy kitchens, from horse-drawn fire engines to subway cars, the New York Historical Society houses many toys illustrative of their day and the children who played with them.’
- ‘A decorative arts gallery features the association's excellent scrimshaw collection as well as furniture, needlework, silver, whirligigs, lightship baskets, and sailors' valentines.’
- ‘For a few hours I was a kid again, reliving memories sparked by the dozens of puppets and paintings, quilts and carvings, weather vanes and whirligigs that combined my two earliest passions - baseball and art.’
- ‘Her Uncle Ob, a disabled World War II veteran, enjoys creating art sculptures in the form of whirligigs and her Aunt May enjoys gardening.’
- ‘Behind the cross, crude propeller blades on whirligigs made by local artist R A Miller and planted on Windy Hill, spin and twirl on gusty days.’
- ‘The wide range of works includes quilts, rugs, paintings, works on paper, weather vanes, decoys, and painted furniture.’
- ‘Most buyers have been delighted by the awkward charms of the animal cutouts nailed to his spinning whirligigs, figures of the red and black devils, crude portraits of Elvis Presley and President Abraham Lincoln.’
- ‘By 1988, when we devoted our February issue to the museum's holdings, its folk sculptures included carousel animals, trade signs, and some forty tobacconists' figures of all sizes and types.’
- ‘One of those rotatory entertainments commonly seen in fairs, and known by the name of ‘whirligigs’ or ‘roundabouts’.’
- ‘Finally how fragile it is - choreography that is here today usually is gone tomorrow, lost in either the whirligig of fashion or the roulette-wheel of luck.’
- ‘The whirligig of fashion trends dictated that the look of Zandra back in the Seventies is exactly the look of 2002-gypsy flounces, boots and floaty hippie blouses and dippy hemlines.’
- ‘I chose to read this edited collection piecemeal as I attempted to cling on board the whirligig of a new teaching year.’
- ‘But then stranger things happen every day in the whirligig of Taiwan life.’
- ‘Against the backdrop of Lewis Castle, a whirligig of ceilidhs, concerts and workshops takes place.’
- ‘The piece is a political whirligig but also a play of ideas, about the politics of life as much as the life of politics
Synonyms
circle, circulate, circumduct, circumvolve, encircling, gyral, gyrate, gyrator, gyratory, gyre, gyroscope, gyrostat, move, pirouette, pivot, purl, reel, revolve, revolving, roll, rotate, rotating, rotational, rotatory, spin, spinner, spinning, spiral, swivel, troll, trundle, turn, turning, twirl, twist, vertiginous, vorticular, waltz, wheel, whirl, whirling, whirr, wind
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