▪ I. whistly, a. rare.
(ˈhwɪs(ə)lɪ)
[f. whistle n. or v. + -y1.]
Resembling a whistle.
| 1907 ‘Q’ Merry Garden, etc. 146 Makes a whistly noise in his speech—do he—like a slit bellows? |
▪ II. whistly, adv. arch.
(ˈhwɪstlɪ)
[f. whist a.1 + -ly2.]
Silently, quietly, softly, without noise.
| a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 1851 Off þe whele of forton & þe whene þat whistely chaungez. 1592 Arden of Feversham iii. iii. 9, I vppon a little rysing hill Stoode whistely watching for the herds approch. 1854 S. Dobell Balder xxviii. 192 ‘Whistly, whistly,’ said she:..‘He must not wake.’ |