ALL meanings of pennywhistle
- noun pennywhistle a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny 0
- noun pennywhistle any of various fipple flutes of metal, wood, or plastic with open holes for fingering 0
- noun pennywhistle (music) A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc. 0