whip top vs teetotum

whip top and teetotum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
whip top	Yes	No	No	No
teetotum	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, teetotum is a hypernym of whip top; that is, teetotum is a word with a broader meaning than whip top:

whip top: a top that is spun by whipping
teetotum: a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin

Other hypernyms of whip top include spinning top, top, whirligig.

whip top (noun)	teetotum (noun)
a top that is spun by whipping	a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin