whistler

Senso (Inglese)

1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
2. Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
3. Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
4. A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
5. A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
6. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
7. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
8. A broken-winded horse.
9. (obsolete, slang) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.

Concetti

fischiatore

marmotta canadese

Marmota caligata

sinonimi

goldeneye

thickhead

hoary marmot

Bucephela clangula

Marmota caligata

rufous

duck

🦆

whistling marmot

vent hole

black duck

breather hole

gas vent

exhaust passage

pop-off

riser vent

sooty shrike-thrush

bleeded head

riser runner

bleeded feeder

bleeded riser

pick-up hole

whistle interference

gas with drawal

airflow orifice

ventilating pit

air hole

ventilation hole

little

marmot

spiracle

venthole

air channel

air passage

air vent

Traduzioni

σφυρικτής

مصفر

morell d’ulls grocs

Whistler

σφυρίχτρα

εξαερωτής

siffleur

marmota caligata

marmotte des rocheuses

Colluricincla umbrina

Marmota caligata

Pachycephala grisola plateni

fluiter

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: whisteler

Ereditato da inglese antico: hwistlere

In summary

From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.