whirligig
IPA: wˈɝɫɪgˈɪg
noun
- Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round.
- A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch.
- A whirligig beetle.
- (historical) A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea.
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Examples of "whirligig" in Sentences
- Appears in whirligig and Kinetic art.
- But a whirligig by someone anonymous may not be art.
- I thought the whirligig pictured was by someone anonymous.
- A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has whirling parts.
- The simplest and most common example of a wind driven whirligig is the pinwheel.
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