Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small whirl of wind carrying up black clouds of dust and often leaves and grass. [Interior of Australia.]
- n. A violent storm of wind and rain on the northwest coast of Australia.
Wiktionary
- n. Australia alternative spelling of willy willy: a severe tropical cyclone or dust devil.
Examples
“And there are laws governing amphethemine use, which almost assuredly included filling large coffee pots full of "lead," as they would call it, or dispensing greenies willy-willy.”
“Often a monsoon is pre-cursed by a dust storm that grows out of the desert like a willy-willy.”
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Hyphenated Repeats
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aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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chinook, foehn, gallego, sirocco, harmattan, fremantle doctor, tramontane, mistral, santa ana, diablo, descuernacabras, dust devil and 119 more...
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Tornado terminology.
twister, funnel, eye, eddy, mesocyclone, tornadogenesis, storm cell, supercell, landspout, waterspout, vaporspout, whirlwater and 33 more...
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bilby See willy willy. Sep 21, 2011
hernesheir The name for an Australian wind. Sep 21, 2011