Twirlies

I'm with Aka on this one. Is definitely someone who tries to use their bus pass before the allotted time. "Sorry love, you're twirley

After deep and profound thought I have decided that its only definition is one of those metal jobbies that you use to mix drinks.

Look away Scottish Grannies, Mice is talking 'jobbies'

Couldn't resist!

Wasn't it a chocolate coated toffee bar?

No, it has to be a gnarled, polished walking stick; a twirley.

12Michael that sounds like a fun journey.

Oh, oh, oh, it's a baton thrown by an Army band leader!

Round here they are the bus people as described by aka

Around here it is someone trying to use a bus pass before 9am. As in too early.

mcem we call a rotary clothes line a 'whorly' rather than a 'twirly'
and a 'doufus' is what DD Dutch MiL calls a thingamajig or whatjamacallit

You'll have to explain that foreign language Agus.

In sunny Natal in South Africa, the rotary dryers are called a "Windydry" and rightly so. In the summer, clothes dry in an hour, wind or no wind

But. face to face with someone, could you describe any of these non-animate twirlies to them without using your hands to demonstrate?

By non-animate I mean not alive. Some of them are still very animated.

Anyone trying to use a bus pass before 9.30 are told they are "toearly".

Micelf my cat does her 'jobbies' in the garden

It's a Scottish word for poo Mice. . It reminded me of the time an English friend of ours saying he had a couple of mobiles to do in the garden. We couldn't help but laugh, as he did when we translated.

I thought maybe some of you would have recognised it if you had listened to Billy Connelly.

Mobiles???? Of course I meant, jobbies.

Oh my goodness! I'll never be able to use that word again.

Of course you will Mice. Just watch for the reaction if you say it to a Scot and have a giggle

Didn't know jobbies was Scottish - we say it in Norfolk with the same meaning.