whistler
see also: Whistler
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪslə(ɹ)/
Noun

whistler (plural whistlers)

  1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
  2. 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 {{...}
  3. The whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
  4. The goldeneye (certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
  5. The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
  6. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
  7. A broken-winded horse.
  8. (slang, obsolete) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: siffleur
  • Italian: fischiatore
  • Russian: свисту́н
  • Spanish: silbador
Translations
  • Italian: quattrocchi

Whistler
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. A resort town in British Columbia, Canada.
Translations
  • French: Whistler



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