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phweep

phweep interjection: a whistle, or the whistling cry of a bird.

Interjection

  1. A whistle, or the whistling cry of a bird.
    • From around the corner upstream comes a quiet birdcall: "Phweep? Phweep?" like a question.1986, Martha Brown, Granite Mountain Spring, page 26
    • Pit blew on Relly's whistle, three times, phweep. Bubba started barking.2009, George Stade, Swimming Through the Flotsam in Which We Live and Move and Have Our Being

Origin of phweep

Imitative.

Questions about phweep

What does phweep mean?
Phweep means a whistle, or the whistling cry of a bird.
What part of speech is phweep?
Phweep is an interjection.

Words near phweep in the dictionary

  1. phutters
  2. phutting
  3. PHV
  4. PHVs
  5. PHW
  6. phweep
  7. phwoah
  8. phwoar
  9. phwoared
  10. phwoaring
  11. phwoarr

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