whipping top vs teetotum

whipping top and teetotum both are nouns.

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

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

whipping 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 whipping top include spinning top, top, whirligig.

whipping 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