tin whistle

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   an inexpensive fipple flute

   Synonymspennywhistlewhistle

   Broaderfipple flute

Questions about tin whistle

What does tin whistle mean?

tin whistle means "an inexpensive fipple flute".

What is another word for tin whistle?

Close synonyms include pennywhistle, whistle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tin whistle a common word?

tin whistle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.