Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small whirl of wind carrying up black clouds of dust and often leaves and grass. [Interior of Australia.]
  • noun A violent storm of wind and rain on the northwest coast of Australia.

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  • noun Australia Alternative spelling of willy willy: a severe tropical cyclone or dust devil.

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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.

    David Ortiz and steroids 2009

  • Often a monsoon is pre-cursed by a dust storm that grows out of the desert like a willy-willy.

    Cam Riley 2010

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  • The name for an Australian wind.

    September 21, 2011

  • See willy willy.

    September 21, 2011