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Whistler
//ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)// name, noun, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable
- 2 A placename:; A resort town in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename:; A mountain in British Columbia, Canada; in full, Whistler Mountain. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename:; A neighbourhood of Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama, United States, named after George Washington Whistler. countable, uncountable
Noun
- 1 Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
- 2 Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call wordnet
- 3 Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
- 4 large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions wordnet
- 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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- 6 large North American mountain marmot wordnet
- 7 A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
- 8 someone who makes a loud high sound wordnet
- 9 A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
- 10 A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
- 11 An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
- 12 A broken-winded horse.
- 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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