wolfwhistle

See also: wolf-whistle and wolf whistle

English

Noun

wolfwhistle (plural wolfwhistles)

1. Alternative form of wolf whistle.
   • 1989, Rick DeMarinis, The Year of the Zinc Penny, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 73:

     Two soldiers were on the hood of the Cadillac, peering in at Mother and Aunt Ginger. They were giving them the wolfwhistle and rolling their eyes.

   • 1998, Anne Pauwels, Women Changing Language, London, New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, page 63:

     Men’s wolfwhistles, as well as their calls to attract the attention of a woman often unknown to them, mainly focus on women’s physical or sexual features (e.g. ‘gorgeous’, ‘sexy legs’, ‘big tits’, etc.).

   • 2012, Paul D. Carter, Eleven Seasons, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 215:

     ‘Look out,’ they say. ‘Dalts is dolled up for his chick.’ Their wolfwhistles bounce off the walls and surround him as he leaves.

Verb

wolfwhistle (third-person singular simple present wolfwhistles, present participle wolfwhistling, simple past and past participle wolfwhistled)

1. Alternative form of wolf whistle.
   • 1971, Michael Orsler, Rhumb Line, Hutchinson, →ISBN, pages 110–111:

     An unpleasant huge Australian stuck out a hand and felt between a nymph’s fat thighs, and wolfwhistled.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 476:

     She wolfwhistled at Dorothy’s evening frock of deep purple.

   • 1991, Deborah Moggach, The Stand-In, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 30:

     Now, from my balcony, I watched him drive up in his Morgan and rehearse climbing out, swinging his legs in their high-heeled sandals. He wore a red, curly wig and a full-skirted dress. One of the cameramen wolfwhistled.