| 释义 |
whistled, ppl. a.|ˈhwɪs(ə)ld|
[f. whistle v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Uttered by whistling.
1816J. Hecklewelder Let. 24 July in Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1819) I. 396 Where w in this language is placed before a vowel, it sounds the same as in English; before a consonant, it represents a whistled sound. 1864J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 195 In obedience to his whistled signal. 1918Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 5/3 A shrill whistled chorus of ‘Jack's the Boy’.
b. whistled language or whistled speech: = whistle-language, -speech s.v. whistle n. 4.
1948Langauge XXIV. 283 Many words and phrases in Mazateco have identical tonal patterns. In the spoken language segmental phonemes usually distinguish tonally identical words and phrases. In the whistled language the absence of the segmental features gives opportunity for ambiguities. 1957Archivum Linguisticum IX. 44 The Silbo Gomero is not the only whistled language in the world..but..is unique in being based not on prosodic but on purely articulatory features. 1978Verbatim Sept. 13/1 Such systems of communication by whistling, based on the language of the user, are conventionally referred to as ‘whistled languages’ or ‘whistled speech’.
2. Summoned by whistling.
1912World 7 May 692/2 As they waited for the whistled cab to come.
3. Drunk, (mildly) intoxicated. slang (orig. Mil.).
The relationship, if any, to whistled drunk is obscure.
1938G. March-Phillipps Ace High ii. iv. 216 They would be drunk as lords, tight as owls, screwed, canned, whistled. 1942H. E. Bates Greatest People in World 8 He bounced in very late..and then began to eat as if he had returned from a hunting expedition. ‘Pretty whistled last night, boys,’ he would say. ‘Rather off my feed.’ 1968‘O. Mills’ Sundry Fell Designs viii. 83 He'd taken a skinful aboard, somewhere. He sounded more than a bit whistled. 1979Private Eye 6 July 15/1 We all sidled off to a very nice little snug at the Golden Goose, where..all of us got faintly whistled.
¶ whistled drunk: see quot.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xii. ii, He was indeed, according to the vulgar Phrase, whistled drunk. |