whistler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈwɪslə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: whistlers
Etymology: From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
glosses: Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
examples: text: The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
glosses: A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
glosses: A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
glosses: A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
glosses: An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
glosses: A broken-winded horse.
glosses: The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
Synonyms: sense: whistling marmot
word: hoary marmot
Derived terms: sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Baliem whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: bare-throated whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Biak whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Bismarck whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: black-chinned whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: black-headed whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Bornean whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Bougainville hooded whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: brown-backed whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: brown whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: drab whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: fawn-breasted whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Fiji whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Gilbert's whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: golden-backed whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: golden whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: green-backed whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: grey whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Guadalcanal hooded whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: hooded whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: island whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Lorentz's whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Louisiade whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: mangrove golden whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: mangrove whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: maroon-backed whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: New Caledonian whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: olive whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: oriole whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: red-lored whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: regent whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Rennell whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: rufous whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: rusty-breasted whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: rusty whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Samoan whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Sangihe whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Sclater's whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: sulphur-bellied whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Temotu whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Tongan whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Vanuatu whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Vogelkop whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: Wallacean whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: western whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: white-breasted whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: white-vented whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: yellow-bellied whistler
sense: Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae
word: yellow-throated whistler