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