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Meanings of pennywhistle in English

Portuguese
flauta irlandesa
Catalan
flauta
Spanish
flauta metalica irlandesa

An inexpensive fipple flute.

flauta irlandesa
Usage of pennywhistle in English
1
If you ever need me again, just blow. It was her pennywhistle.
The Fireman
2
The marquis de Carabas was leaning against the wall, playing the pennywhistle.
Neverwhere
3
Mark Treggs took the pennywhistle from his mouth and looked down at her.
Mine
4
A pennywhistle piping began softly, and echoed down the passage.
Neverwhere
5
He nodded, and slid the pennywhistle into his back pocket.
Mine
6
I also had a pennywhistle that I'd salvaged.
Rite of Passage
7
He played the pennywhistle against the clicketing of the engines and the soft creak of the rigging.
Dragonshadow
8
Just the freedom to speak and write, and up at Rock City I play my pennywhistle and meditate.
Mine
9
And then she came around a curve and she heard it: the high, birdlike notes of a pennywhistle.
Mine
10
A pennywhistle, Laura thought, was an instrument played in circuses by clowns with tears painted on their cheeks.
Mine
11
I held up the pennywhistle.
Rite of Passage
12
I bounced up, put the pennywhistle away, then hopped over Zena on the floor to get to the vid.
Rite of Passage
13
The marquis lowered his pennywhistle.
Neverwhere
14
I was sitting cross-legged on my bed and playing on the pennywhistle I had discovered a couple of months before.
Rite of Passage
15
For Jimmy's sake, I forbore the pennywhistle and instead told the story that I had prepared and had intended to tell.
Rite of Passage
16
Blessed with the ability to play the guitar, bass and even the pennywhistle, it's only fitting that he was acknowledged by his industry.
The South African
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Translations for pennywhistle
Catalan
flauta
Pennywhistle through the time