1. move in a twisting or spiraling pattern: "the smoke was swirling around him"
▪ cause to move in a twisting or spiraling pattern:"swirl a little cream into the soup"
noun
1. a quantity of something moving in a swirl: "swirls of dust swept across the floor"
▪ a twisting or spiraling movement or pattern:"she emerged with a swirl of skirts"
Word Originlate Middle English (originally Scots in the sense ‘whirlpool’): perhaps of Low German or Dutch origin; compare with Dutch zwirrelen ‘to whirl’.
