Definition of Twizzling

1. Verb. (present participle of twizzle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Twizzling

1. twizzle [v] - See also: twizzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twizzling

twitteringly
twitterings
twitterpated
twitters
twittery
twitting
twittingly
twittings
twixt
twixt-brain
twizzle
twizzled
twizzles
twizzling (current term)
two
two's company, three's a crowd
two's complement
two's complements
two-
two-a-penny
two-armed
two-bagger
two-base hit
two-baser
two-bellied muscle
two-bit
two-blocked
two-body problem

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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