wolfwhistle

plural wolfwhistles

1. alternativeAlternative form of wolf whistle.

   ‘Look out,’ they say. ‘Dalts is dolled up for his chick.’ Their wolfwhistles bounce off the walls and surround him as he leaves.

   2012, Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 215

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   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.

   1989, Rick DeMarinis, The Year of the Zinc Penny, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 73

   Men’s wolfwhistles, as well as their calls to attract the attention of a woman often unknown to them, mainly focus on women’s physical or sexual features (e.g. ‘gorgeous’, ‘sexy legs’, ‘big tits’, etc.).

   1998, Anne Pauwels, Women Changing Language, London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 63

present singular third person wolfwhistles · participle present wolfwhistling · participle past wolfwhistled · past wolfwhistled

1. alternativeAlternative form of wolf whistle.

   She wolfwhistled at Dorothy’s evening frock of deep purple.

   1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 476

   2 more examples

   An unpleasant huge Australian stuck out a hand and felt between a nymph’s fat thighs, and wolfwhistled.

   1971, Michael Orsler, Rhumb Line, Hutchinson, →ISBN, pages 110–111

   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.

   1991, Deborah Moggach, The Stand-In, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 30