What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Twirp vs Twirl - What's the difference?

twirp | twirl |

As nouns the difference between twirp and twirl

is that twirp is while twirl is a movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.

As an interjection twirp

is an imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.

As a verb twirl is

to perform a twirl.

twirp

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia, like chirp .

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.
  • * 1898 , Metropolitan: Volume 7 , page 520:
    • The hounds are impatient. "Twirp', '''twirp''', ' twirp !" goes the horn, and "Crack, crack, crack!" responds the whip. It is a chorus that stirs the blood of the veteran as well as that of the uninitiated fox-hunter.
  • * 1996 , Garrett Barbuto, Boy's Life , August, page 54:
    • The first guy climbed up a tree and the farmer yelled, "Who is in my tree?" "Twirp', ' twirp ," replied the first guy. "Meow," replied the second guy.

    Etymology 2

    , possibly derived from the onomatopoeia. See twerp .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1924 , Munsey's Magazine: Volume 81 , page 561:
    • Don't be such a twirp . I'll be back in twenty minutes. Watch the clock! Time me! I'm going to take the bus.

    twirl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform a twirl.
  • To rotate rapidly.
  • * Dodsley
    • See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
  • * Byron
    • No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.

    References