Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inexpensive fipple flute, usually having a plastic mouthpiece and a tin body.
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- noun A six-holed
flute -like instrument with afipple . They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
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- noun an inexpensive fipple flute
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Examples
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Yeah the pennywhistle is the worst kind of groundling humor.
Edmond O'Brien Ed Gorman 2008
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Walk by them playing a pennywhistle and lead them out of town.
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Burke, will host a Celtic music concert, featuring Points of Poguery, an ensemble featuring guitar, violin, pennywhistle, flute, percussion and bass, with four-part vocals. 3 p.m.
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From the case he took a velvet cloth and unwrapped a glass cylinder more the dimensions of a pennywhistle than a flute.
Stalin's Ghost Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2007
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For example, on Saturday morning, after bopping the two Lifshitz girls and then detouring to the basement for a brief but satisfying round of old-fashioned Cape Cod-style three-hole pennywhistle with a zaftig Hasidic hausfrau, Weinberg found himself and his white bathrobe moseying across town toward Stuyvesant High School.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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For example, on Saturday morning, after bopping the two Lifshitz girls and then detouring to the basement for a brief but satisfying round of old-fashioned Cape Cod-style three-hole pennywhistle with a zaftig Hasidic hausfrau, Weinberg found himself and his white bathrobe moseying across town toward Stuyvesant High School.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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It had to be the first time in the history of Broom that Maypole dances were held to the tune of melodies by Bach instead of the pennywhistle and fiddle.
Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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“Hello, Doctor Al,” he chirped brightly, in a pennywhistle voice.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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“Hello, Doctor Al,” he chirped brightly, in a pennywhistle voice.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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“Hello, Doctor Al,” he chirped brightly, in a pennywhistle voice.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
hernesheir commented on the word pennywhistle
A fipple is a wonderful thing, yeah? The intimate part of my instrument of choice.
September 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word pennywhistle
Fipple flute. Fipple + flute. Fipple flute.
Fipple flute fipple flute.
Fipple fipple fipple.
Flute flute flute.
Fipple?
Flute!
Fipple?
Flute!
Fipple fipple fipple!
Flute flute flute!
September 29, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word pennywhistle
I'll perform, on the whistle, a selection of jigs, hornpipes, reels and slow airs tomorrow evening in a St. Paddy's variety show. Maids of Mitchelstown, Boys of the Town, Kerfunten, Cul Aodhe, and others.
March 15, 2013
bilby commented on the word pennywhistle
You're a fippler?
March 16, 2013