Pronounced: OR-gyuh-luhs, adj
Note: Another handy to know; you can call someone this and they won’t know if it’s an insult or not
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The word tourbillion means “a whirlwind or whirlpool”
Background
This word is fairly well traveled; it came from French tourbillion (whirlwind), but this came from Latin (and you may have picked up on it) turbo (spinning top, whirl), which itself came from Greek turbe (turmoil, confusion).
First usage
This word came into English in the late 1400s.
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