Whorled

Word WHORLED
Character 7
Hyphenation whorled
Pronunciations /wɜːld/

Definitions and meanings of "Whorled"

What do we mean by whorled?

Having or forming whorls or a whorl. adjective

Furnished with whorls; verticillate.

Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate. adjective

Formed from whorls; having whorls adjective

In the shape of a coil adjective

Forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) adjective

Formed from whorls; having whorls

A youngling whore, or apprentice whore; typically a young girl (age 10 - 16) who dresses and/or acts like a whore or wears whore-like makeup in her tween/teenage years. A "whorling" typically is not having sexual intercourse, but appears to be a whore in training nonetheless. "Whorling" could also refer to a whore-dwarf, midget whore or just a whore of small stature, but is generally reserved for a teenage girl. See also: middle-school cheerleader or beauty pageant contestant Urban Dictionary

A girl who has the clap. Urban Dictionary

(1) A cam or balance wheel on a shaft or spindle for spinning yarn or thread from wool, cotton, or other material; usually made of clay; (2) a weight attached to the end of a spindle to facilitate manipulation of the thread in spinning Urban Dictionary

A fingertip shape. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Whorled

The word "whorled" in example sentences

We recognized headwaiters and porters, pool boys and cabaret singers, whorled barnacles for fingertips. ❋ Wendy Wimmer (2011)

The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a world inhabited by sea creatures and whorled growths, forms with a pleasing balance of rigid symmetry and organic irregularity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. ❋ Sydney Kilgore (2010)

He pulls a white bar of soap with two hairs wrapped around it from the splash pad, and rubs it over his hands and wrists before lathering every inch of his naked, whorled body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His hair had dried in bronze streaks and whorled over my breasts like the petals of a Chinese chrysanthemum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bandit walked another step, unknowing, then his mouth fell open and he looked down at the sharp whorled spike that had seemingly grown out of his heart. ❋ Justine Larbalestier (2010)

She threw her arms in the air, where they flickered and whorled like ribbons in the wind. ❋ Robin Wasserman (2010)

Unlike the Hollywood outsiders playing with six-shooters, Adakai could name all the sandstone spires, massive buttes, and whorled arches, bathed in reflected red: the Right Mitten and the Left, Gray Whiskers, Three Sisters, Bear and Rabbit, King on His Throne, arrayed in an ancient skyline that could have passed for Mars. ❋ Judy Pasternak (2010)

What's there is a furling, shimmering loop of ice, whorled loosely like a bundle of ribbon, not neatly wound — instead hastily stuffed in a brown paper bag by a clerk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The glove, half-erupted from a crevice in the ground with fingers pinched about the heel of the shoe, looked much like a tightly-whorled crocus emerging through snow and dead leaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Accretion disks are composed of matter being violently whorled around and collisional processes amount to a type of friction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the feel of raised seams across the fingertips, cloth contours like road bumps under the knuckle joints—how the whorled cotton can be seen as a magnified thumbprint, a blowup of the convoluted ridges on the pad of your thumb. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

American tea was also made from raspberry leaves and stalks of whorled loosestrife plant. ❋ Maggiemac (2008)

For visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's whorled rotunda, it is like walking through a history of Spain's distinctive culture, told only in masterpieces. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Plants characteristic of the prairie area include big bluestem, Indian grass, whorled rosinweed, butterfly-weed, ladies'-tresses and bush clover. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I must endure this sleep until what seals me off is burnt, frozen, exposed to axe-blow, erosion, rain, noon, twilight, starlight: then I will flower, everything in me — triple-folded leaf of the female organ leaf-shoot of the male, whorled together like petals in bloom — will be explained as if by a voice: now I must pass unknown to myself through the belly and gut of the northbound sparrow. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I thought it was odd that a brothel would be directly behind a middle school cafeteria, but it wasn't until after I recognized the initials on their [junior varsity] letter-jackets that I put my roll of [cash back] into my [trenchcoat]; it seems the painted, glittery faces and tight miniskirts belonged to a pack of whorlings, only pretending to be hookers (at least until college, when they realize how easy it is to sell their body/soul for money). ❋ Djsountrak (2009)

James: [Fuck me], she looks alright [ey] Tim: Na mate don't [fuck with] her, she's a whorle. ❋ Xendless_Xurb (2016)

"I always use a spindle whorl to help weight down my wool strands; it makes it easier to spin [yarn] for my knitting and weaving," said [the weaver] to her customers at [the farmer's] market. ❋ Aviva Gabriel (2007)

person1: yo person2 do you have [swirls] in your fingerprint? person2: [no i] have whorls person1: man. [thats] cool ❋ The Death Of Eyes (2018)

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