penny whistle

See also: pennywhistle

English

Alternative forms

• pennywhistle

Noun

penny whistle (plural penny whistles)

1. A tin whistle.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:

     Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a twopenny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!