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quirling

quirling is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about quirling

What is quirling the present participle and gerund of?
Quirling is the present participle and gerund of quirl.

Words near quirling in the dictionary

  1. quirkyalones
  2. quirl
  3. quirled
  4. quirley
  5. quirleys
  6. quirling
  7. quirly
  8. quirlys
  9. quirn
  10. quirns
  11. Quiroa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quirling (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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