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Word entry · 8 letters

teetotum

Best crossword clue

"Spinning top"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted eemotttuStarts with TEnds with M1 clues
1T2E3E4T5O6T7U8M

Definitions

  1. a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin

Word origin

From Latin totum (“all”), marked by a T on one of the four sides.

Used in a sentence

  • The town awakes; the great tee-totum is set up for its daily spin and whirl; […]
  • "Are you a child or a teetotum?" the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles. "You'll make me giddy soon, if you go on turning round like that."
  • Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho/Time's teetotum/If you spin it/Gives it quotum...

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