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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
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pião
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.
teetotum
absurd teetotum
little teetotum
make a teetotum
spin the teetotum
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