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Wheeple. World English Historical Dictionary

Wheeple. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wheeple v. Sc. and north. dial. [Imitative.] intr. To utter a somewhat protracted shrill cry, like the curlew or plover; also, to whistle feebly (intr. and trans.). So Wheeple sb.

1 1793.  Statist. Acc. Scot., VII. 601, note. I wad na’ gie the wheeple of a whaup for a the nightingales that ever sang.

2 1818.  Hogg, Brownie of Bodsbeck, Hunt of Eildon, v. Like Redwings wheepling through the mist.

3 a. 1837.  R. Nicoll, Poems (1843), 284. We’ve a’ been heathens—now we pray, And sing and wheeple.

4 1901.  G. Douglas, House w. Green Shutters, 80. He sometimes wheepled a tune.

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