Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A fairground carousel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American hesperiid butterfly, Thymelicus brettus, occurring along the coast from Connecticut to Mexico.
- n. Something that whirls with velocity; a whirligig.
- n. A great fish of the whale kind; a whirl-whale.
Etymologies
whirl + about (Wiktionary)
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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