whirly-whirly noun a small, localised whirlwind AUSTRALIA,1926 From “whirl”, but modelled on WILLY-WILLY.
I got angrier. I could feel it growing inside me, getting bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger, like a whirly-whirly spinning across a paddock. — Phillip Gwynne, DeadlyUnna?, p. 133, 1998