whistler
see also: Whistler
Pronunciation
Whistler
Proper noun
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see also: Whistler
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪslə(ɹ)/
whistler (plural whistlers)
- Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
- A bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto XII:
- The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy {{...}
- The whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
- The goldeneye (certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
- The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
- An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
- A broken-winded horse.
- (slang, obsolete) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
- (whistling marmot) hoary marmot
- French: siffleur
- Italian: fischiatore
- Russian: свисту́н
- Spanish: silbador
- Italian: quattrocchi
Whistler
Proper noun
- Surname
- A resort town in British Columbia, Canada.
- French: Whistler
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