| 单词 | pikipiki whistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspikipiki whistle More fully pikipiki whistle. Among the Mbuti of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a type of whistle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > whistle > other whistles penny whistle1730 sap-whistle1740 Galton's whistle1904 Swanee whistle1926 pikipiki1933 1933 G. Griffin tr. P. Schebesta Among Congo Pygmies iii. 78 The pikipiki is..a kind of whistle, about the thickness of a man's finger, and is cut out of a round piece of wood. In both ends holes are..burned, with a red-hot spike. It can then be used as a whistle like a hollow key. 1936 G. Griffin tr. P. Schebesta My Pygmy & Negro Hosts vi. 114 It seems that all the negro tribes believe in the supernatural powers of the ‘pikipiki whistle’. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 508/1 The production of shrill notes from their whistles called pikipikis. 1960 New Scientist 6 Oct. 903/1 The songs which they sing nightly to the accompaniment of pikipiki whistles. < as lemmas |
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