Whistler

//ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A resort town in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A neighbourhood of Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, named after George Washington Whistler. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
  2. 2
    Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
  4. 4
    large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions wordnet
  5. 5
    Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).

    "The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]"

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  1. 6
    large North American mountain marmot wordnet
  2. 7
    A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
  3. 8
    someone who makes a loud high sound wordnet
  4. 9
    A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
  5. 10
    A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
  6. 11
    An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
  7. 12
    A broken-winded horse.
  8. 13
    The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen. obsolete, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Continuing the Middle English Wistler, Wyzelere, an occupational surname from the Old English hwistlere (“piper”).

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