单词 | whistler |
释义 | whistler /hwis"leuhr, wis"-/, n. 1. a person or thing that whistles. 2. something that makes a sound like a whistle: The windstorm was a 60-mile-an-hour whistler. 3. any of various birds whose wings whistle in flight, esp. the goldeneye. 4. thickhead (def. 2). 5. a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of mountainous northwestern North America, closely related to the woodchuck. 6. a horse afflicted with whistling. 7. Radio. a whistling sound heard on a radio, a type of interference caused by distant lightning. [bef. 1000; ME; OE hwistlere. See WHISTLE, -ER1] |
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