Associations to the word «Skirl»

Wiktionary

SKIRL, verb. (Scotland) (Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.

Dictionary definition

SKIRL, noun. The sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe.
SKIRL, verb. Make a shrill, wailing sound; "skirling bagpipes".
SKIRL, verb. Play the bagpipes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope