whistle | Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Whistle
·vt To send, signal, or call by a whistle. II. Whistle ·vi The mouth and throat; — so called as be...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
whistle
The throat. It is never used in this sense except in the phrase to 'wet one's whistle,' to take a dr...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
whistle
From the Ang.-Sax. wistl. (See call.) ...

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slick as a whistle
A proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistl...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
whistle for the wind, to
A superstitious practice among old seamen, who are equally scrupulous to avoid whistling during a he...

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