spinny round thing 

A spinny round thing is anything tangible and visible that rotates as part or whole of its known usage.
A spinny round thing is almost always useful and pointing in the general direction of a spinny round thing usually leads the listener to the correct choice of object which has been applied the title spinny round thing.
An oven is not a spinny round thing, nor is a curtain and yet a yo-yo is!

A washing machine is one of the most common spinny round things, so the wife may say to her househusband - "Hey dear, could you empty the spinny round thing when it has conmpleted its cycle and hang the washing on the line to dry?!"

Or - aforementioned househusband (we'll call him Mike as we're getting to know him quite well now)may be using the food mixer to whip up some clotted cream when all of a sudden the spinny round thing stops spinning round (what a thing!) and he may, on his wife's return say to her " I miust go the the electrical store to purchase a new spinny round thing as the old one stopped rotating and don't go in the bin as there's white creamy clots everywhere!

spinny round thing by Barry Davies December 14, 2008