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whistler en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪslə(ɹ)/ wine–whine merger
• /ˈʍɪslə(ɹ)/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
2. Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
3. 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 […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
4. A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
5. A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
6. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
7. An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
8. A broken-winded horse.
9. (obsolete, slang) The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.

Forms

Deriveds

Louisiade whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Fiji whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · white-breasted whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Biak whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · green-backed whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · black-chinned whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Sangihe whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · yellow-bellied whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · hooded whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · olive whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · mangrove golden whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · rusty-breasted whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Guadalcanal hooded whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Temotu whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · yellow-throated whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Vanuatu whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · sulphur-bellied whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Bougainville hooded whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Rennell whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · rusty whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · brown-backed whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · mangrove whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · island whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · regent whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Sclater's whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · grey whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Bornean whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · white-vented whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Wallacean whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · bare-throated whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · western whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · drab whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Tongan whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Samoan whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Vogelkop whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · golden-backed whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · fawn-breasted whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Gilbert's whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · brown whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · maroon-backed whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Lorentz's whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · golden whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · oriole whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · black-headed whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Bismarck whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · Baliem whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · rufous whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · red-lored whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae) · New Caledonian whistler (Species of whistler, family Pachycephalidae)

Synonyms

hoary marmot (whistling marmot)

Translations (13)

fi vihellin (someone or something that whistles) · fi viheltäjä (someone or something that whistles) · es silbador (someone or something that whistles) · fr siffleur (someone or something that whistles) · ru свисту́нья (someone or something that whistles) · it quattrocchi (goldeneye) · fi telkkä (goldeneye) · tr düdükçü (someone or something that whistles) · ru свисто́к (someone or something that whistles) · ru свисту́н (someone or something that whistles) · it fischiatore (someone or something that whistles) · fi matalataajuinen radioaalto (physics: audio-frequency electromagnetic wave) · ota دودوكجی (someone or something that whistles)