twirl
verb/twɜːl/
/twɜːrl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they twirl | /twɜːl/ /twɜːrl/ |
| he / she / it twirls | /twɜːlz/ /twɜːrlz/ |
| past simple twirled | /twɜːld/ /twɜːrld/ |
| past participle twirled | /twɜːld/ /twɜːrld/ |
| -ing form twirling | /ˈtwɜːlɪŋ/ /ˈtwɜːrlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] twirl (somebody) (around/round) to move or dance round and round; to make somebody do this
- She twirled around in front of the mirror.
- He held her hand and twirled her around.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- [transitive] twirl something (around/about) to make something turn quickly and lightly round and round synonym spin
- He twirled his hat in his hand.
- She sat twirling the stem of the glass in her fingers.
- [transitive] twirl something to turn something round and round with your fingers
- He kept twirling his moustache.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably an alteration (by association with whirl) of tirl, a variant of archaic trill ‘twiddle, spin’.
Check pronunciation:
twirl