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quirled

quirled is the simple past and past participle of quirl.

Meaning of quirl

Verb

quirl (third-person singular simple present quirls, present participle quirling, simple past and past participle quirled)

  1. (Southern US, dialectal) To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).
    • Ephraim clapped his hand to his side, and rolled his eyes agonizingly towards his mother, but she took no notice. She got some paper out of the cupboard, and Ephraim sat down and began quirling it into long spirals with a wretched sulky air.1894, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke: A Novel, page 215

Adjective

quirled (not comparable)

  1. coiled, curled

Questions about quirled

What does quirled mean?
Quirled means coiled, curled.
What is quirled the simple past and past participle of?
Quirled is the simple past and past participle of quirl.
What part of speech is quirled?
Quirled is an adjective.

Words near quirled in the dictionary

  1. quirky subject
  2. quirky subjects
  3. quirkyalone
  4. quirkyalones
  5. quirl
  6. quirled
  7. quirley
  8. quirleys
  9. quirling
  10. quirly
  11. quirlys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quirled (page history and authors); quirl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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