Noun: whirl
| Singular | whirl |
| Plural | whirls |
Sample Sentences
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She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
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My life is one social whirl.
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My mind was in a whirl.
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OK, let's give it a whirl.
Nouns inflected like whirl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English whirl, wherwille, whorwhil, wervel, from Old English hwirfel, hwyrfel (“whirlpool”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwirbil, from Proto-Germanic *hwirbilaz, *hwarbilaz (“swirl, whirl, whirlpool”), equivalent to wharve + -el; and also Old Norse hvirfill (“ring, circle, crown”), whence Danish hvirvel (“cowlick”), Dutch werveling (“whirling, vortex”), German Low German Warvel (“whirl, whirlpool”), German Wirbel (“whirl, whirlpool”). See: Middle English Nouns '
whirl', Old English Nouns '
hwirfel', Old Norse Nouns '
hvirfill', Danish Nouns '
hvirvel', German Nouns '
Wirbel'.