v. Obs. rare. [Imitative.] To whistle. Hence † Whuting ppl. a. So † Whute sb.
c. 1600. in W. Fowler’s Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 340. The Robin, Wraine, & whutinge quaill.
a. 1663. Robin Hood & Curtal Friar, xxix. in Child, Ballads (1888), v. 125. Give me leave to set my fist to my mouth And to whute whutes three. Ibid., xxx. xxxi.
