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whistle
English
Etymology
From Middle English whistlen, from Old English hwistlan, hwistlian (“to whistle”), from Proto-Germanic *hwistl?n? (“to make a hissing sound”). Cognate with Icelandic hvísla (“to whisper”), Russian ???????? (svistet?, “to whistle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?sl?/, /??sl?/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Noun
whistle (countable and uncountable, plural whistles)
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- An act of whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- the whistle of the wind in the trees
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
- Let's […] drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
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Verb
whistle (third-person singular simple present whistles, present participle whistling, simple past and past participle whistled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- Never whistle at a funeral.
- She was whistling a happy tune.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- The stream train whistled as it passed by.
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- A bullet whistled past.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
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See also
- whistle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Whistle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- whilest
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whistly
English
Etymology 1
whistle +? -ly
Adjective
whistly (comparative more whistly, superlative most whistly)
- (informal) Making a whistling sound.
Etymology 2
whist +? -ly
Adverb
whistly (comparative more whistly, superlative most whistly)
- (obsolete) silently
Anagrams
- swithly
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