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ˈwhister, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5–6 whyster.
[app. identical with OE. hwǽstrian ‘susurrare’, ‘murmurare’, with root-vowel raised (from *whester), partly by assimilation to whisper.]
= whisper v. Hence ˈwhistering vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈwhisterer = whisperer.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xii. 19 Grucchendeli whistrende. Ibid. xxviii. 15 The whistrende grucchere. 14..Chaucer's Troylus ii. 1753 (Harl. MS. 3943) Was Troilus not in a kankerdorte, Þat lay & myght the whistryng [v.r. whysprynge] of hem here. c1500H. Medwall Nature (Brandl) i. 1087 Reason wyll whyster hym in the ere. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 162, I hate whisterars. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 97 Vnto them this lesson he whisters. 1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 93 Peter Martyr..whistered to him in the eare that he should plainly denie that any laying on of handes..was required. 1586W. Webbe Engl. Poetrie (Arb.) 75 Oft fine whistring noise, shall bring sweete sleepe to thy sences. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 147 She..whistereth a certain odde praier with a Pater Noster into his eare. 1746Exmoor Courtship (E.D.S.) 624 Chell tell tha sometheng—Zart! whistery! 1888Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 556 Whistling—a surprising sound in the Arabic countries! where it would be taken for one's whistering to the jan. |