Crossword-Solution: WHIRLIGIG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whirligig | n. | A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. |
| Whirligig | n. | Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. |
| Whirligig | n. | A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. |
| Whirligig | n. | Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Called also weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “WHIRLIGIG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Colorful lawn or garden fixture | 1 answer |
| Merry-go-round, old-style | 1 answer |
| Pinwheel | 1 answer |
| Revolving motion | 1 answer |
| water beetle | 2 answers |
| Carousel | 2 answers |
| FLIGHTY person | 3 answers |
| Merry-go-round | 5 answers |
| SPINNING toy | 6 answers |
| A REVOLVING ROD THAT TRANSMITS POWER OR MOTION | 10 answers |
| rotator | 15 answers |
| CHANGEABLE thing | 16 answers |
| Gyrate | 17 answers |
| Child's toy. | 18 answers |
| Spinner | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with WHIRLIGIG (5)
Most boys, I presume, know the toy called a whirligig, made by stringing a button on a loop of thread, the twisting and untwisting of which by approaching and separating the hands causes the button to revolve.
The chief engineer seemed nonplused, like a slow man invited to catch hold of a whirligig of some sort.
There was a time when he was counted a great man, and Millet but a dauber; behold, how the whirligig of time brings in his revenges! To pity Millet is a piece of arrogance; if life be hard for such resolute and pious spirits, it is harder still for us, had we the wit to understand it; but we may pity his unhappier rival, who, for no apparent merit, was raised to opulence and momentary fame, and, through no apparent fault was suffered step by step to sink again to nothing.
There was lots o' side shows, mermaids 'n' six-legged calves 'n' spotted girls, 'n' one thing 'n' 'nother, an' there was one o' them whirligig machines with a mess o' rocking'-hosses goin' round 'n' round, 'n' an organ in the middle playin' like sixty.
Rest is the loosing of the chains which bind us to the whirligig of the world, it is the passing into the centre of the Cyclone; it is the Stilling of Thought.
Quotes with WHIRLIGIG (2)
Lynetta bared her wickedly sharp pointed canines and hissed. Her long black hair hung wildly to her hips, tangled and teased by the breeze. She was petite like me but as strong as a male body builder. Her grip on Dominic remained iron tight. Her soul-less black eyes, vacant and without a care, really ate away at my heart. I surveyed the yard for any kind of weapon I could use against the vampire. My heart surged when I spied a colorful whirligig attached to a wooden stake emb…
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2005–2023).