Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a whistling manner; with a sibilant or shrill sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a whistling manner; shrilly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
whistling sound.
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Examples
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Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers up the coil of the wrap in one hand, so as to secure its free end in his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed.
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Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers up the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers up the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along its length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers up the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in his grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed.
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All through the midday meal he kept on putting down his fork with lumps of meat sticking on it and would say whistlingly: "Ooh, mummie, d'you know, I used to think it must be my imagination you had such a wonderful head of hair.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
fbharjo commented on the word whistlingly
another silent 'e'
September 1, 2010