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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /twɜːl/
• (General American) IPA: /twɝl/
• (New Zealand, Wales) IPA: /twøːl/
• (Scotland) IPA: /twɪɾl/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /tweːl/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /twɛːl/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)l

名詞

twirl (plural twirls)

1. A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
2. Any rotating movement; a spin.

   The conductor gave his baton a twirl, and the orchestra began to play.

3. A little twist of some substance; a swirl.
   • 1969, The South African Sugar Journal, volume 53, page 51:

     Place the cream in a piping bag with a fairly large star pipe attached, fill each tartlet with a twirl of cream and top with a strawberry.

4. (slang) A prison guard.

   Synonym: screw

   • 1958, Frank Norman, Bang to rights: an account of prison life, page 67:

     Which was in the main childishness and pettiness, the reason for this was that most of the twirls and the governors had […]

派生語

• squirl
• twirl one's thumbs
• twirler

動詞

twirl (third-person singular simple present twirls, present participle twirling, simple past and past participle twirled)

1. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
2. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.
   • 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture:

     See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVII:

     No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.

3. (transitive) To twist round.

   Synonym: twizzle

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:

     He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.

4. (baseball) To pitch.
   • 1949, Mark Raymond Murnane, Ground Swells: Of Sailors, Ships, and Shellac, page 302:

     When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked.

派生語

• twirl one's moustache

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