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Significats de teetotum en anglès

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A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.

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        Ús de teetotum en anglès
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        A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.
        Rose in Bloom / A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"
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        The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.
        Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
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        Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.
        The Wisdom of Father Brown
        4
        I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 06
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        She raises her hands to heaven, she spins round like a little teetotum.
        What Every Woman Knows
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        When he was not a teetotum he was a windmill.
        Auld Licht Idyls
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        I have already apologized for treating you like a teetotum, on a former occasion.
        The Fallen Leaves
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        We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it.
        Mr. Standfast
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        Ask Polly; she'll spin you round like a teetotum." "Mr.
        An Old-Fashioned Girl
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        We were spinning the teetotum yesterday and it did not spin well so we made new ones.
        The Child Under Eight
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        He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.
        At Whispering Pine Lodge
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        Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.
        A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
        13
        He was turning like a teetotum, looking in all directions, and sometimes peering into the darkness of the hall with his little bloodshot eyes.
        The stranger
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        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.
        Rattlin the Reefer
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        I think of you at Cambridge as setting the lives of young men spinning like little tops-smallhuman teetotums.
        Watersprings
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        His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.
        The Voyage Out
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        Translations for teetotum
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        Teetotum a través del temps