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nounpenny whistle (plural penny whistles)
plural penny whistles · alternative pennywhistle
- A tin whistle.
Good heavens! and I was going to take charge of a twopenny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached!
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
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