单词 | whistled |
释义 | whistledadj. 1. a. Uttered by whistling. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [adjective] > whistled whistled1816 1816 J. Hecklewelder Let. 24 July in Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1819) I. 396 Where w in this language is placed before a vowel, it sounds the same as in English; before a consonant, it represents a whistled sound. 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 195 In obedience to his whistled signal. 1918 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 5/3 A shrill whistled chorus of ‘Jack's the Boy’. b. whistled language or speech: = whistle-language n., whistle-speech n. at whistle n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > whistled language whistled language or speech1948 whistle-speech1948 whistle-language1956 silbo1957 1948 Language 24 283 Many words and phrases in Mazateco have identical tonal patterns. In the spoken language segmental phonemes usually distinguish tonally identical words and phrases. In the whistled language the absence of the segmental features gives opportunity for ambiguities. 1957 Archivum Linguisticum 9 44 The Silbo Gomero is not the only whistled language in the world..but..is unique in being based not on prosodic but on purely articulatory features. 1978 Verbatim Sept. 13/1 Such systems of communication by whistling, based on the language of the user, are conventionally referred to as ‘whistled languages’ or ‘whistled speech’. 2. Summoned by whistling. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > summoning > summoned > by whistling whistled1912 1912 World 7 May 692/2 As they waited for the whistled cab to come. 3. Drunk, (mildly) intoxicated. slang (originally Military).The relationship, if any, to whistled drunk is obscure. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 1938 G. March-Phillipps Ace High ii. iv. 216 They would be drunk as lords, tight as owls, screwed, canned, whistled. 1942 H. E. Bates Greatest People in World 8 He bounced in very late..and then began to eat as if he had returned from a hunting expedition. ‘Pretty whistled last night, boys,’ he would say. ‘Rather off my feed.’ 1968 ‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs viii. 83 He'd taken a skinful aboard, somewhere. He sounded more than a bit whistled. 1979 Private Eye 6 July 15/1 We all sidled off to a very nice little snug at the Golden Goose, where..all of us got faintly whistled. 4. whistled drunk adj. see quot. 1749. ΚΠ 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. ii. 202 He was indeed, according to the vulgar Phrase, whistled drunk . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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