twist and twirln.
/ˌtwɪst (ə)n ˈtwəːl/, U.S. /ˌtwɪst (ə)n ˈtwərl/, Australian English /ˌtwɪst (ə)n ˈtwɜːl/, New Zealand English /ˌtwɪst (ə)n ˈtwɜːl/ slang (originally Australian and New Zealand, later also U.S.). Now rare.
With possessive adjective: a female lover or sweetheart; a girlfriend. Also occasionally more generally: a young woman, a girl. Cf. twist n.3
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the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]
daughterOE
maidenOE
young womanOE
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queanie?1800
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kitten1870
bud1880
fräulein1883
sub-debutante1887
sweet-and-twenty1887
flapper1888
jelly1889
queen1894
chick1899
pusher1902
bit of fluff1903
chicklet1905
twist and twirl1905
twist1906
head1913
sub-deb1916
tabby1916
mouse1917
tittie1918
chickie1919
wren1920
bim1922
nifty1923
quiff1923
wimp1923
bride1924
job1927
junior miss1927
hag1932
tab1932
sort1933
palone1934
brush1941
knitting1943
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
Valley Girl1982
the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend
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she1547
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young lady1584
pigeon1592
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lady friend1733
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Dona1874
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fancy-girl1892
girlfriend1892
cliner1895
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dinah1898
best1904
twist and twirl1905
jane1906
kitten1908
patootie1918
meisie1919
bride1924
gf1925
jelly1931
sort1933
a bit (also piece) of homework1945
beast1946
queen1955
momma1964
mi'jita1970
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girlf1991
1905 Austral. Star (Sydney) 7 July 4/5 She was a bit puzzled one day when he said that he had ‘iked his rabbit up the frog and toad across the field of wheat, to see his twist and twirl beyond the near and far’, all in one breath.
1909 N.Z. Truth 4 Sept. 1/5 If [he]..were accepted as the suitor of a girl, He would never mention her as his fiancee, But ‘Twist and twirl’.
1924 Everybody's Jan. 60/2 It makes Canavan see red, Venable with his ‘twist and twirl’—that's the way he talks, you know, out of the side of his mouth.
1930 Swann Express (Midland Junction, W. Austral.) 18 Dec. 6/6 The twist and twirl screamed because the clammy denizen of the creek bit her.
1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xvii. 154 I'm just as good as any of those Pittsburgh twist-and-twirls.
1968 W. H. Minarik Sailors, Subs & Senoritas i. i. 12 You put the screws to your cuddle-bunny—your twist-and-twirl—in a doorway or along a blacked-out street.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1905- get stuck into
- get stuffed
- get surety
- get thank
- get that way
- get the advantage of
- get the back of
- get the bad end of the stick
- get the bag
- get the best of
- get the best out of
- get the better end of
- get the better end of the staff
- get the better hand
- get the better of
- get the big bird
- get the bird
- get the book
- get the boot
- get the business
- get the catch
- get the chop or chopper
- get the chopper
- get the crappy end of the stick
- get the day