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Definition of Twizzling
1. twizzle [v] - See also: twizzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twizzling
Literary usage of Twizzling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Twizzle. To turn a thing round and round between the fingers, quickly and repeatedly.
It is sometimes used in a neuter sense. Ex. ' He came twizzling down. ..."
2. Meister Karl's Sketch-book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1855)
"... and twizzling into more fancy curves and dots and flourishes than are to be
found in a Turkey carpet; and never would it find its way home again to the ..."
3. The Adventurer in Spain by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1903)
"Being one of the few Spaniards who habitually smoke a pipe, he was not eternally "
twizzling" cigarette papers night and day — a thing which ultimately ..."
4. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"Ex. " He came twizzling down." TYE, s. an extensive common pasture. There are
several tyes a few miles South of the central part of Suffolk; but in no other ..."
5. The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene by George Somes Layard (1892)
"... and have been all the better for it; but here, where my friends directly after
breakfast began twizzling up cigarettes, I broke down, and went at my ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia: Founded on that of Forby : with by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"Twizzle. To turn a thing round and round between the fingers, quickly and repeatedly.
It is sometimes used in a neuter sense. Ex. ' He came twizzling down. ..."
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