Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fly rapidly with noise; whir; hurry.
- To hurry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To whir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Alternative spelling of
wherry . - noun obsolete A sudden or quick movement; a
whirr . - verb obsolete, transitive To
convey swiftly . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
hurry ; to go swiftly.
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Examples
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Preamble: First, let me say this: I am old enough to remember telephones with whirry dials on the front, and watching a tiny black-and-white television in my nan's kitchen, and Liverpool winning this competition four times on the spin.
Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton 2012
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I think I will be okay because we have the fan on in our bedroom which makes a nice whirry noise to blot the noise out a bit.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001
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Hence, the whirry Xbox 360 or PS3 sat under many televisions.
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When there’s nothing on and I don’t want to move off the sofa, I can flick channels and somewhere, somewhere there will be CSI and I can watch lots of people killing lots of airtime putting unidentified liquids into test tubes with eye droppers and then putting the test tubes into whirry ice-cream makery type thingies.
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Philistines, as ye ca 'them, are gaun to whirry awa' Mr Henry, and a 'wi' your nash-gab, deil be on't! "
Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801
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Philistines, as ye ca 'them, are gaun to whirry awa' Mr Henry, and a 'wi' your nash-gab, deil be on't! "
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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