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Wheeze
Definitions
- 1 A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- 2 breathing with a husky or whistling sound wordnet
- 3 An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- 4 (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick wordnet
- 5 An ulterior scheme or plan. British, Ireland, informal
"Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze."
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- 6 Something very humorous or laughable. slang
"The new comedy is a wheeze."
- 7 A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
"At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died."
- 1 To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
"If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed."
- 2 breathe with difficulty wordnet
- 3 To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. slang
"Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle."
- 4 To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
""Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land.""
Etymology
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
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