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Meanings of
teetotum
in inglés
portugués
pião
catalán
baldufa
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A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.
top
whirligig
spinning top
portugués
pião
Usage of
teetotum
in inglés
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.
Other examples for "teetotum"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
teetotum
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
absurd teetotum
little teetotum
make a teetotum
spin the teetotum
Translations for
teetotum
portugués
pião
catalán
baldufa
Teetotum
through the time