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Definition whistle

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”).

Noun

whistle (countable and uncountable, plural whistles)

1. A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
2. An act of whistling.
3. A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
4. Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
5. (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
6. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.

Verb

whistle (third-person singular simple present whistles, present participle whistling, simple past and past participle whistled)

1. (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.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
3. (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
4. (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.

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