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"Blew" is the preterit form of blow, so in this case wouldn't it be based off of the past participle "blown" and be whistleblown?

• Cyph0n 9y ago
  Is "whisteblew" even a word? It sounds off to me.
  • comex 9y ago
    The usual term is "blew the whistle". I've never heard "whistleblow" used as a verb.
  • munchbunny 9y ago
    It's not. "whistleblower" is a commonly used compound noun, and "whistle-blow" is starting to enter usage, but in common usage, it's "blow the whistle" and "blew the whistle."
  • emodendroket 9y ago
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whistle_blow https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whistle_blow Apparently the OP isn't the first to use it and it's kind of a predictable back-formation.
  • mannykannot 9y ago
    Both "whistleblew" and "whistleblown" seem awkward to me, though I am not enough of a grammarian to explain why (the latter sounds to me to more appropriate to the company than the person, in analogy to "wind-blown sand".) Maybe this is a case of impractical verbing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H formation of a verb from a noun.