What's the difference between thickhead and whistler?
Thickhead
Definition:
(n.) A thick-headed or stupid person.
(n.) Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.
Example Sentences:
Whistler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
(n.) The ring ousel.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The golden-eye.
(n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.
(n.) The hoary, or northern, marmot (Arctomys pruinosus).
(n.) The whistlefish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(2) Gwen had set off for Paris in the autumn of 1898 and studied at the Academie Carmen, a newly opened school run by a one-time model of Whistler's who himself gave two lessons a week.
(3) This pious art lover could have a career in slapstick if she wants, for her comic destruction of a work of art bears comparison with Rowan Atkinson giving Whistler's Mother a badly drawn cartoon face in the film Bean .
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(5) • 0871 662 9521, untravelledromania.com Whistler, Canada Families travelling at Easter can stay at a hostel walking distance from the slopes in Whistler.
(6) "The Whistler's Largesse (see your 18th minute) would be a great title for an 19th-century Cornish smuggler novel," suggests Nicola Barr.
(7) When the attention-seeking Whistler sued for libel, the action landed Ruskin back in court.
(8) Under Whistler's influence, Gwen developed her technique - a mix of her intuitive and his scientific methods.
(9) Steve Whistler (@stevewhistler) Perhaps the #australiansforcoal campaign only had one KPI: 'Trend position'.
(10) missMM has suggested a slew around Logan Square and the West Loop: The Whistler ("a bar, gallery, record label, and venue") Scofflaw (a gin bar), Three Dots and A Dash (tiki!
(11) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(12) While it does have paintings by American-born European artists such as Copley and Whistler, the only truly American work it owns is a minor, rarely displayed work by George Inness called The Delaware Water Gap that was transferred to it from Tate in 1956.
(13) We heard fiddlers and guitarists, banjo-pickers and penny whistlers.
(14) However England can't take advantage of the whistler's largesse.
(15) • She once blacked out during a training run in Whistler.
(16) Despite having been the prophet of his age, the best art critic this country has ever produced, the patron of the pre-Raphaelites and of Turner, his legacy has been reduced to one of a bearded reactionary who, in 1878, accused James Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” when confronted with the American painter’s avant-garde nocturnes .
(17) Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler.
(18) The collection includes Pollock's Mural on Indian Red Ground, considered to be one of his most important works and estimated to be worth more than $250m, as well as important pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Whistler and Marcel Duchamp.
(19) Ukip's Nigel Farage and Cameron's Australian lobbyist and chief dog-whistler Lynton Crosby are driving the Tories ever further to the right.
(20) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.