wolf-whistle

1. 1.

   whistle or howl approvingly at a female, of males

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Questions about wolf-whistle

What does wolf-whistle mean?

wolf-whistle means "whistle or howl approvingly at a female, of males".

How many syllables are in wolf-whistle?

wolf-whistle has 3 syllables and divides as wolf--whis-tle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is wolf-whistle a common word?

wolf-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.