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Latest comment: 7 years ago by Equinox in topic whistle-drunk

笛(ふえ) is listed as Japanese for "whistle", when it actually means "flute".

Could someone add what "whistling past the graveyard" means?

To act unafraid when indeed you are.

Etymology

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Is it cognate with whiz? --Fsojic (talk) 16:12, 1 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

whistle-drunk

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This word (meaning very drunk) appears in Fielding's Tom Jones, but in few or no other places. Equinox 20:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC)Reply