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Pennywhistle

Definition: Pennywhistle

Pennywhistle

Noun

1. An inexpensive fipple flute.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pennywhistle

Synonyms: tin whistle (n), whistle (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Pennywhistle

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Pennywhistle Blues (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pennywhistle

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hardwired for Love/Poems (A Pennywhistle Chapbook) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pennywhistle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  pennywhistle

27

  music for pennywhistle

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Pennywhistle

Derivations

Words beginning with "pennywhistle": pennywhistles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pennywhistle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-l-n-n-p-s-t-w-y"

-3 letters: intensely, pinwheels.

-4 letters: entwines, epistyle, ethinyls, penlites, pinwheel, plenties, sentinel, theelins, wenniest.

-5 letters: entwine, epistle, ethinyl, ethynes, hyenine, ineptly, inswept, intense, lenient, linnets, lisente, nephews, ninthly, peewits, pelites, penlite, pennies, pensile, pentyls, phenyls, pinenes, pintles, plenish, plenist, plinths, setline, sheltie, shinney, spinney, spleeny, steeply, sweetly, swinney, swithly, syenite, tennies, tenpins, tensely, tensile, theelin.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-l-n-n-p-s-t-w-y"
 

+1 letter: pennywhistles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pennywhistle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 6E 6E 79 77 68 69 73 74 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01101110 01101110 01111001 01110111 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#110 &#110 &#121 &#119 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006E 006E 0079 0077 0068 0069 0073 0074 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

507180809189747585867871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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