Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrill.
- To vibrate or shake, especially with reverberation; tremble.
- noun A blow such as produces a tingling sensation or a quavering sound; the sensation or sound itself; vibration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Prov. Eng. To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
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Examples
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He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl,Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.
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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.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000
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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.
Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983
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Dirl it out, dirl it out, for Red Roland was first in the charge, and the cries
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Thinks I, my carlie, her nabs 'ill lat you hear something the nicht that'll garr the lugs o' ye dirl.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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It juist garrs my backbeen dirl, an 'I canna sit still.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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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?"
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Lola saw bad boy Batster under dray bid tree fluttin 'wif dray bid dirl.
Seventeen 1915
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"Oh, tweetums tootums ickle dirl!" he heard the ravishing voice exclaim.
Seventeen 1915
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Lola saw bad boy Batster under dray bid tree fluttin 'wif dray bid dirl.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
dangleberry commented on the word dirl
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)
July 18, 2007