whistler
Meanings
Plural: whistlers
Noun
- United States painter (1834-1903)
- someone who makes a loud high sound
- large North American mountain marmot
- large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
- Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call
- Someone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
- Any of several passerine birds of the genera Pachycephala and Coracornis, of Australasia and the western Pacific.
- Any bird that whistles or is noted for its whistling vocalisations (applied regionally to various specific species).
- A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).
- A whistling marmot (Marmota caligata).
- A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
- An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.
- A broken-winded horse.
- The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.
Synonyms
Bucephela clangula, goldeneye, hoary marmot, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Marmota caligata, thickhead, whistling marmot
Scrabble Score: 14
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