whistle
Betekenis (Engels)
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- 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.
- (slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
Concepten
Synoniemen
blow a whistle
whistling sound
make music
make sound
whistle to
swing out
syren
give a whistle
sound indistinctly
blow a toy-trumpet
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Met koppelteken als
whist‧le
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/wɪsl̩/
Etymologie (Engels)
From Middle English whistel, whistil, whistle, from Old English hwistle, from the verb (see below).
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