phweep
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitative.
Interjection
[edit]phweep
- A whistle, or the whistling cry of a bird.
- 1986, Martha Brown, Granite Mountain Spring, page 26:
- From around the corner upstream comes a quiet birdcall: "Phweep? Phweep?" like a question.
- 2009, George Stade, Swimming Through the Flotsam in Which We Live and Move and Have Our Being:
- Pit blew on Relly's whistle, three times, phweep. Bubba started barking.
- 2010, Clive F. Mann, Robert A. Cheke, Sunbirds:
- A guttural phweep-phweep used to defend feeding territories.