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fissle

fissle is the alternative form of fistle.

Meaning of fistle

Verb

fistle (third-person singular simple present fistles, present participle fistling, simple past and past participle fistled)

  1. To rustle; to make a slight rustling (or whistling sound).
    • […] they both plainly heard a fistling within.1828, Mansie Wauch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 200

Forms of fissle

third-person singular presentfissles
present participlefissling
past participlefissled
pastfissled

Questions about fissle

What is fissle the alternative form of?
Fissle is the alternative form of fistle.

Words near fissle in the dictionary

  1. fissipeds
  2. fissirostral
  3. fissis
  4. fissitunicate
  5. fissive
  6. fissle
  7. fissled
  8. fissling
  9. fissula ante fenestram
  10. fissural
  11. fissurate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fissle (page history and authors); fistle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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