(n.) A person whose behavior resembles a rapid, spinning object. These actions are often spastic fidgeting and incessant babbling. The actions of the whirling dervish are irritating and annoying, often exhausting other
people in the immediate vicinity.
The phrase is derived from these 2
words:
Whirling
1.) adj. moving or driven rapidly in a rotary or twisting
motion.
Dervish
1.) (n.) a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements.
2.) (n.) a Rocking Demon who eats souls.
1.) that woman must have
taken her son's
Ritalin. She is behaving like a whirling dervish.
2.) Is she talking to
us, to herself or has she just become a whirling dervish?