Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American hesperiid butterfly, Thymelicus brettus, occurring along the coast from Connecticut to Mexico.
- noun Something that whirls with velocity; a whirligig.
- noun A great fish of the whale kind; a whirl-whale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fairground carousel .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
whirl + about
Examples
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And yet the sudden whirlabout to all her thoughts and habits and ways, was very confusing.
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"Don't look at those whirlabout sails, but come let us go and see the house of Peter the Great, which was the chief object of our visit to this place."
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"Grundy, meanwhile, is in a state of complete whirlabout.
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