Usually means: Small, flute-like, high-pitched instrument.
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  1. pennywhistle: Merriam-Webster
  2. pennywhistle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pennywhistle: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pennywhistle, pennywhistle: Wordnik
  5. pennywhistle: Wiktionary
  6. pennywhistle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pennywhistle: Dictionary.com
  8. Pennywhistle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. pennywhistle: Rhymezone
  10. pennywhistle: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pennywhistle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pennywhistle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pennywhistle: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pennywhistle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pennywhistles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pennywhistle)

noun:  (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.

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