Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sounding like a whistle: as, a whistling sound.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of whistle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- a. & n. from whistle, v.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of whistling a tune
- n. the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
- n. the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
Examples
“However, I can't help but think this is what they call whistling past the graveyard.”
“That is what I call whistling," said he, after he had repeated the signal thrice; "and now to cover, to cover, or Whitefoot will not be shod this day.”
“This is what we call whistling through the graveyard.”
“Its cheerful whistling is audible in our house throughout the day.”
“That man in the Day-Glo hard hat wolf-whistling is now an urban regenerator and the tempting cleft peeping from his waistband announces his urban regenerator's bum.”
“Besides plain whistling, there were warbles (made by blowing jerkily) and trills (made by rolling an "r" while blowing); by blowing patterns of high and low notes of varying style, most anything that needed to be communicated on shipboard could be said.”
““Sifr”: I have warned readers that whistling is considered a kind of devilish speech by the Arabs, especially the”
““Sifr”: whistling is held by the Badawi to be the speech of devils; and the excellent explorer Burckhardt got a bad name by the ugly habit.”
“A high, thin whistling noise of a different texture from the ventilator's.”
““That is what I call whistling,” said he, after he had repeated the signal thrice; “and now to cover, to cover, or”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whistling’.
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Awesome Pronunciations
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whistling
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A Parthian Shot: Archery Words
Just what it says. Archery rocks.
bow, arrow, longbow, crossbow, barebow, recurve, compound bow, flight, arrowhead, nock, feather, yew and 197 more...
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
portmanteau, aesthetic, deviation, conglomerate, treachery, soluble, bildungsroman, soliloquy, irrevocable, effervescent, phrontistery, aeipathy and 180 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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words about sound
mellifluous, susurrate, sibillant, aria, whispering, melodious, cacaphonous, cacophony, harmony, symphonious, phoeneme, phonic and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for whistling.
dontcry I'm a pretty decent whistler, but I'm still waiting for my microphone... *checks porch again* Dec 10, 2009
PossibleUnderscore -ooh! Can someone pretty please record the 'Bridge Over River Kwai' whistling POW tune? Dec 10, 2009
PossibleUnderscore hahaha! Dec 8, 2009
yarb I can't do anything at all - I can't even belch. I can whistle but it just sounds like the gaspy, sterterous breathing of an emphysemic yokel. Dec 8, 2009
reesetee Ouch. Dec 7, 2009
PossibleUnderscore Not many people can wiggle their ears. I certainly can't do that either. But I can bend almost all my fingers so the middle joint sticks out and if I push, it can go back nearly 90 degrees. hyperlaxity. Dec 7, 2009
reesetee I can do both, but I can't wiggle my ears. Dec 6, 2009
Telofy I can, but I can’t snap my fingers. Dec 4, 2009
PossibleUnderscore I still can't whistle! Dec 4, 2009