twirl
noun/twɜːl/
/twɜːrl/
- the action of a person turning around in a circle once
- Kate did a twirl in her new dress.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably an alteration (by association with whirl) of tirl, a variant of archaic trill ‘twiddle, spin’.Definitions on the go
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