Examples
“He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl,Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.”
“So I swarmed up his coat, seized his dirk, and stifled his yawp, the while I tauld him the steel wad dirl in his gullet did he gie trouble.”
“Dirl it out, dirl it out, for Red Roland was first in the charge, and the cries”
“Thinks I, my carlie, her nabs 'ill lat you hear something the nicht that'll garr the lugs o' ye dirl.”
“It juist garrs my backbeen dirl, an 'I canna sit still.”
“Mr. Kloh came home for lunch, and while Dlorus sat on his lap in the living-room, and repeated that she had been a "bad, naughty, 'ittle dirl -- what did the fellows say at the mill?”
“Lola saw bad boy Batster under dray bid tree fluttin 'wif dray bid dirl.”
“Oh, tweetums tootums ickle dirl!" he heard the ravishing voice exclaim.”
“Weel, it wad appear that when he askit that, she gave a girn that fairly frichtit them that saw her, an 'they could hear her teeth play dirl thegether in her chafts; but there was naething for it but the ae way or the ither; an' Janet lifted up her hand and renounced the deil before them a '.”
“You 's doin 'to have a new ittle sit-ter to-mowowday, if you 's a dood ittle dirl an does to seep nite an kick, you _ser-weet_ ittle Vildy Tummins!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dirl’.
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Retrologisms
We're bringing it back.
Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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doric
words from the north east of scotland
bairn, ken, fit like, aboot, nae bother, dinnae, yersel, naye bad, aye, ca canny, scunnered, gaun and 12 more...
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Welcome in Wonderland
Real words that I think would fit right into Wonderland/Underland vocabulary. Because I'm a geeky fangirl and that's how I roll. ^_^
widdershins, kenspeckle, thropple, whigmaleerie, swither, kerfuffle, stravaig, guddle, tapsalteerie, clashmaclavers, murgullie, umbersorrow and 37 more...
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dangleberry as in "a gave mysel a richt dirl on the heed" (I gave myself a real bump on the head) or "it's makin ma heed dirl" (it's making my head thump) Jul 18, 2007