Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

swirlie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: swirlie
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mode of school bullying involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water.

Example Sentences

"I gave this nerd a swirlie."
"[Tom Gribalski:] In my other school, five guys held my head in a toilet, and then flushed it. [Alan Twitty:] You got a swirlie. That's vile!"

Etymology

From swirl + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: swirl

Inflected Forms

swirlies (plural) swirly (alternative) swirley (alternative)

Questions

What does swirlie mean?: A mode of school bullying involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water.
Where does swirlie come from?: From swirl + -ie.

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