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],
"etymology_text": "twirl + -able",
"forms": [
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"form": "more twirlable",
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]
},
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"form": "most twirlable",
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"ref": "1945, The Motor, volume 86, page 275",
"text": "Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists.",
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"Capable of being twirled."
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"ref": "1945, The Motor, volume 86, page 275",
"text": "Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists.",
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