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twirlable en · ADJ

Etymology

From twirl + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being twirled.
    • Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists. 1945, The Motor, volume 86, page 275:

Forms

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more twirlable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most twirlable Degree=Sup lexicographic