pennywhistles
Meaning of pennywhistles
noun
A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
Information about pennywhistles
- It is a name.
- The singular form of pennywhistles is: pennywhistle.
- Languages in which pennywhistles is used:
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Hyphenation of pennywhistles
pen-ny-whis-tles
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- pennywhistles is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with pennywhistles
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