wurlies

Perhaps a dozen little "wurlies" or branch-shelters were dotted about the foot of a sandhill.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The promised jollity of grannybum's 40th birthday party in Tuffnell Park did not disappoint - after about the 9 pm mark particularly it filled up quickly, but even before then there was fairy cake, curly-wurlies, and the chance to catch up IRL with charleston, my_name_is_anna, and thedavidx who I'd not actually met before I hadn't realized he had a Scottish accent - lovely to hear!

22nd April 2007 grannybum 2007

Only bribery in the form of unhealthy foodstuffs provides Tadpole with an incentive to spend a little time with mummy, and I am pathetically grateful to the kind ladies on the barbecue stall for their array of toddler taming quavers, hot dogs and curly wurlies.

firestarter 2005

Only bribery in the form of unhealthy foodstuffs provides Tadpole with an incentive to spend a little time with mummy, and I am pathetically grateful to the kind ladies on the barbecue stall for their array of toddler taming quavers, hot dogs and curly wurlies.

busy 2005

Crossed creek in the centre of a cracked flooded flat bearing to the north by west; passed over sandhills and a heavy flooded cracked and timbered flat in which is a creek bearing north-east with sandy hillocks and native wurlies.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

Rather late getting the animals ready for a start, the feed being so scant; started on bearing of 40 degrees, on same side of creek as that on which we were encamped, over flooded flats and sandy terminations: at five and three-quarter miles passed along and crossed a large deep creek in which there was a little water and a number of native wurlies.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

There were tea-caddies inlaid with red turtle-shell and brass curly-wurlies, plates of different kinds of money, and stacks of different kinds of plates.

The Story of the Amulet 1891

But paradoxically, Cindi, Debbie or Jade are then quite likely to brag to the media about the conjoining of their sticky curly-wurlies with those of a muscular celebrity.

Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

“curlie-wurlies” for highly decorated architecture, and recognised the phrase, next year, in the mouth of Andrew Fairservice.

Rob Roy 2005

"curlie-wurlies" for highly decorated architecture, and recognised the phrase, next year, in the mouth of Andrew Fairservice.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801