Meanings of teetotum in anglès

A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.

The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.

Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.

I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum.

She raises her hands to heaven, she spins round like a little teetotum.

When he was not a teetotum he was a windmill.

I have already apologized for treating you like a teetotum, on a former occasion.

We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it.

Ask Polly; she'll spin you round like a teetotum." "Mr.

We were spinning the teetotum yesterday and it did not spin well so we made new ones.

He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.

Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.

He was turning like a teetotum, looking in all directions, and sometimes peering into the darkness of the hall with his little bloodshot eyes.

However, I could not augur ill of one who laughed so heartily, nor of the other, who seemed so happy in making himself a teetotum.

I think of you at Cambridge as setting the lives of young men spinning like little tops-smallhuman teetotums.

His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.