The word "whirligig" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a spinning or whirling object, often in a playful or whimsical context. Example: "The children laughed as they watched the colorful whirligig spin in the breeze." Alternatives include "spinning top" or "toy."
When disturbed, whirligig beetles exude a disagreeable-smelling milky liquid, which probably serves for protection.
It was less weaselly than stoat-like a whirligig of policiestoat-like as that appeared more fascinating than substantial.
Throughout this whirligig, King Abdullah made it clear that he had set aside the diplomatic preoccupations of his father to concentrate on Jordan's double-digit unemployment and near-zero economic growth.
When last he was obliged to resign from the government, he expressed a wish to eschew the whirligig of Westminster for the haven of his Hartlepool constituency.
Get off the whirligig of management fads.
Some beetles (e.g., burying beetles of the family Silphidae and whirligig beetles of the family Gyrinidae) attract attention by their bizarre habits; others do so by their grotesque forms (e.g., Scarabaeidae).
The female whirligig beetle deposits cylindrical eggs in parallel rows on underwater vegetation.
Whereas Tolstoy created a gallery of richly drawn characters caught in the sweep of history, Peter Nadas creates a series of elusive consciousnesses floundering in the whirligig of time.
But the full-back Joaquin Tuculet had garnered few headlines in spells with Sale, Grenoble, Bordeaux-Begles and Cardiff Blues, while the whirligig Cordero was focused on sevens until the big wing Manual Montero was injured.
A mere 72 hours after announcing his bid for the Labour leadership, Chuka Umunna - the bookies favourite - has un-announced it, claiming he was unhappy with the "scrutiny and attention" that are part and parcel of the political whirligig.
And that's before we even consider the whirligig of trends that the past 12 months have also thrown up.
