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Meanings of penny whistle in English

Russian
вистл
Portuguese
tin whistle
Catalan
whistle
Spanish
flauta irlandesa
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Six-holed woodwind instrument.

      вистл
      Synonyms
      Examples for "tin whistle"
      Examples for "tin whistle"
      1
      Which is, uh, basically a tin whistle with a tassel on it.
      Wired
      2
      In the corner, an acoustic band played: singer, fiddle, frame drum, tin whistle.
      Roast mortem
      3
      They're not likely to do much harm with a tin whistle between their lips.
      The Return of Blue Pete
      4
      Stacy's job involved playing tin whistle and banging a beer tray over his head.
      The Guardian
      5
      We did not know how to play a tin whistle or beat upon the tintinnabulum.
      Waysiders, Stories of Connacht
      1
      She plays clarinet, saxophones, recorders and Irish whistles, and has worked professionally in a variety of genres.
      Radio NZ
      Usage of penny whistle in English
      1
      The little breathless voice was like a child's penny whistle blown ignorantly.
      The Cathedral: A Novel
      2
      Do you seek to bribe a Roman Senator with a penny whistle?
      Stories by American Authors, Volume 5
      3
      I'm thinking of learning the penny whistle before I go again.
      John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical N...
      4
      It's only a penny whistle, and a poor one at that.
      Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
      5
      You should hear Lloyd on the penny whistle, and me on the piano!
      The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2
      6
      The street was empty, save for that beggar playing vilely on his penny whistle.
      The Centaur
      7
      I play the penny whistle in my dug-out.
      This Is the End
      8
      He always lost caste in our eyes when he had his little, choked-up penny whistle going.
      Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
      9
      Put more pep into you with a penny whistle than Sousy's band or a bottle of rum.
      The Window-Gazer
      10
      If only we had a penny whistle!
      Saint's Progress
      11
      A crumhorn and a penny whistle.
      Voice of the Fire
      12
      Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man, because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle.
      Lay Morals, and Other Papers
      13
      Polonius and the others assumed as axiomatic that man was a penny whistle with only half a dozen stops.
      Eyeless in Gaza
      14
      A stage child does not get up at five o'clock in the morning to practice playing on a penny whistle.
      Stage-Land
      15
      Voices shouted below, accompanied by the mournful wail of a fiddle; and then, in countermelody, the lilt of a penny whistle.
      Masked
      16
      All that penetrated there was a subdued buzz with an occasional shrill note as it might be on a penny whistle.
      The Cathedral: A Novel
      Translations for penny whistle
      Russian
      вистл
      Portuguese
      tin whistle