wolfwhistle
See also: wolf-whistle and wolf whistle
English
Noun
wolfwhistle (plural wolfwhistles)
- Alternative form of wolf whistle.
- 1989, Rick DeMarinis, The Year of the Zinc Penny, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 73:
- Two soldiers were on the hood of the Cadillac, peering in at Mother and Aunt Ginger. They were giving them the wolfwhistle and rolling their eyes.
- 2012, Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 215:
- ‘Look out,’ they say. ‘Dalts is dolled up for his chick.’ Their wolfwhistles bounce off the walls and surround him as he leaves.
Verb
wolfwhistle (third-person singular simple present wolfwhistles, present participle wolfwhistling, simple past and past participle wolfwhistled)
- Alternative form of wolf whistle.
- 1971, Michael Orsler, Rhumb Line, Hutchinson, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
- An unpleasant huge Australian stuck out a hand and felt between a nymph’s fat thighs, and wolfwhistled.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 476:
- She wolfwhistled at Dorothy’s evening frock of deep purple.
- 1991, Deborah Moggach, The Stand-In, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 30:
- Now, from my balcony, I watched him drive up in his Morgan and rehearse climbing out, swinging his legs in their high-heeled sandals. He wore a red, curly wig and a full-skirted dress. One of the cameramen wolfwhistled.
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