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▪ I. whistly, a. rare.|ˈhwɪs(ə)lɪ| [f. whistle n. or v. + -y1.] Resembling a whistle.
1907‘Q’ Merry Garden, etc. 146 Makes a whistly noise in his speech—do he—like a slit bellows? ▪ II. whistly, adv. arch.|ˈhwɪstlɪ| [f. whist a.1 + -ly2.] Silently, quietly, softly, without noise.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 1851 Off þe whele of forton & þe whene þat whistely chaungez. 1592Arden of Feversham iii. iii. 9, I vppon a little rysing hill Stoode whistely watching for the herds approch. 1854S. Dobell Balder xxviii. 192 ‘Whistly, whistly,’ said she:..‘He must not wake.’ |