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Meanings of teetotum in English
Synonyms
Examples for "top"
Examples for "top"
1
Outside the top 100 stocks however, the market was in good shape.
2
So just top line question; is wearing sunscreen still a good idea?
3
The French president Emmanuel Macron said the crisis must top the agenda.
4
Yet the impact on investment banks' top lines was far from positive.
5
Myth: State schools are no good at getting children into top universities.
1
She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
2
The centrifuge was inspired by a simple spinning toy called a whirligig.
3
To him the compass must have been a profound and awful whirligig.
4
My, he thought, how many years since I played with a whirligig.
5
The case may have hidden the whirligig aspects of the timepiece.
1
I came to in a moment, my heart whirling like a spinning top.
2
The one that whirls around like a spinning top is hardcooked.
3
It consisted of a tin man mounted on a spinning top.
4
Thrusters reverse, let's retreat and make like a spinning top.
5
After all, what was he, what was human striving everywhere, but a vainly spinning top.
Usage of teetotum in English
1
A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.
2
The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.
3
Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.
4
I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum.
5
She raises her hands to heaven, she spins round like a little teetotum.
6
When he was not a teetotum he was a windmill.
7
I have already apologized for treating you like a teetotum, on a former occasion.
8
We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it.
9
Ask Polly; she'll spin you round like a teetotum." "Mr.
10
We were spinning the teetotum yesterday and it did not spin well so we made new ones.
11
He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.
12
Every one appears to patronize the contrivance, and you constantly hear the click of the teetotum along the beach.
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.
14
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.
15
I think of you at Cambridge as setting the lives of young men spinning like little tops-smallhuman teetotums.
16
His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Teetotum through the time