Whistle vs Raspberry - What's the difference?
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A device designed to be placed in the mouth in order, or driven by steam or otherwise, to make a whistling sound.
An act of whistling.
A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
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Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute ).
* 2005 , Wally Payne, A Minority of One: A Monkey's Tale Continued
The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
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(ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
* Addison
The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
As nouns the difference between whistle and raspberry
is that whistle is a device designed to be placed in the mouth in order, or driven by steam or otherwise, to make a whistling sound while raspberry is the plant Rubus idaeus.As verbs the difference between whistle and raspberry
is that whistle is to make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips while raspberry is to gather or forage for raspberries.As an adjective raspberry is
containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.whistle
English
(wikipedia whistle)Noun
(en noun)- the whistle of the wind in the trees
- We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church.
- Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles .
Derived terms
* bells and whistles * * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * wet one's whistle * whistle-blower * whistle pig * whistle-stop * whistle walkVerb
(whistl)- Never whistle at a funeral.
- She was whistling a happy tune.
- A bullet whistled past.
- He chanced to miss his dog; we stood still till he had whistled him up.
Derived terms
* whistle Dixie * whistle in the dark * whistle past the graveyardSee also
* (wikipedia "whistle")raspberry
English
(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.