catcall vs whistle

catcall

noun
  • A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval. 

  • A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo. 

  • A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman. 

  • In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type. 

verb
  • To make such an exclamation. 

whistle

noun
  • An act of whistling. 

  • A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound. 

  • A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling. 

  • Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling. 

  • A suit (from whistle and flute). 

  • The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling. 

verb
  • To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips. 

  • To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc. 

  • To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound. 

  • To send, signal, or call by a whistle. 

How often have the words catcall and whistle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )