Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An inexpensive fipple flute, usually having a plastic mouthpiece and a tin body.
Wiktionary
- n. A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inexpensive fipple flute
Examples
“Yeah the pennywhistle is the worst kind of groundling humor.”
“Walk by them playing a pennywhistle and lead them out of town.”
“Burke, will host a Celtic music concert, featuring Points of Poguery, an ensemble featuring guitar, violin, pennywhistle, flute, percussion and bass, with four-part vocals. 3 p.m.”
“From the case he took a velvet cloth and unwrapped a glass cylinder more the dimensions of a pennywhistle than a flute.”
“For example, on Saturday morning, after bopping the two Lifshitz girls and then detouring to the basement for a brief but satisfying round of old-fashioned Cape Cod-style three-hole pennywhistle with a zaftig Hasidic hausfrau, Weinberg found himself and his white bathrobe moseying across town toward Stuyvesant High School.”
“It had to be the first time in the history of Broom that Maypole dances were held to the tune of melodies by Bach instead of the pennywhistle and fiddle.”
““Hello, Doctor Al,” he chirped brightly, in a pennywhistle voice.”
“This results in a bagpipe drone with a skirling of pennywhistle above.”
“Cady Coleman has a pennywhistle from The Chieftains and a flute from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.”
“Kwela Tebza chat about breathing new life into the pennywhistle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pennywhistle’.
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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Fictional music genres
fudgepunk, whangboogie, electrogush, jizzbilly, glambient, queasy listening, chip shop, baroque'n'roll, prog folk, chemo, riant grrl, blingfolk and 584 more...
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She did what?
For a more inclusive list, see sionnach's tom, dick and harry.
Also see the list Bad Sentences by abigail.katydid, Hollywood, june bug, June bug, Maryland, Marywood, Marymount, joy ride, joystick, barbet, barbwire, pennywhistle and 62 more...
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Real last names that look like compou...
pennywhistle, drinkwater, goodfellow, applejohn, rainwater, goodfriend, stonecipher, snowball, peacemaker, goodman, brownback, hayslip and 25 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Croquettes of Random Palavery
Another eclectic list of random words and phrases that excite or intrigue me. I'll try to tag those I make up as "madeupicals".
berberophone, chapon, clearmeat, water bailiff, daubiere, drock, pigeon racing, traveling cider m..., rictal bristles, flaming piano, burning man, peanut hay and 140 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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ooh shiny
words I like with little or no rationalization
ventral, feverfew, axial, fend, murther, candela, helix, eruct, mayhem, lossy, weir, siphon and 61 more...
Tweets
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bilby You're a fippler? Mar 15, 2013
hernesheir I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others. Mar 15, 2013
bilby Fipple flute. Fipple + flute. Fipple flute.
Fipple flute fipple flute.
Fipple fipple fipple.
Flute flute flute.
Fipple?
Flute!
Fipple?
Flute!
Fipple fipple fipple!
Flute flute flute! Sep 29, 2009
hernesheir A fipple is a wonderful thing, yeah? The intimate part of my instrument of choice. Sep 29, 2009