phweep

phweep

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

phweep

1. 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.