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Wheeze   /wiz/  /hwiz/   Listen
Wheeze

noun
1.
Breathing with a husky or whistling sound.
2.
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick.





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"Wheeze" Quotes from Famous Books



... Then, they commanded him to bark at the moon, and threatened him with all sorts of penalties if he disobeyed. So he yelped and gnarled and bow-wowed till there was nothing left of his voice but a sickly wheeze. ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
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... himself laboriously out of his chair and waddled toward the door. He was purple with rage and mortification. On the threshold he paused to wheeze: "Very well, then. Go! I'm done with both of you. I would have lent you a hand with this rascal Cueto, but now he will fall heir to your entire property. Well, it is a time for bandits! I—I—" Unable to think of a ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
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... and forward in the intensity of its emotion. It stretched out its arms and wagged a threatening forefinger, while it mumbled some unintelligible warning in a voice that faltered and wavered, and then frayed off to a mere wheeze that sounded suspiciously ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann
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... their way to eat up the British half-battalion at Stormberg. On our side of the bridge slouched a score of Boers—waiting, they said, to join and conduct their kinsmen. In the very middle of these twirled a battered merry-go-round—an island of garish naphtha light in the silver, a jarr of wheeze and squeak in the swishing of trees and river. Up the hill, through the town, in the bar of the ultra-English ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
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... still life; his interest was engrossed by a human figure, seated on a campstool near the back wall of the house, and holding a concertina, whence, at this moment, in slow, melancholy strain, 'Home, Sweet Home' began to wheeze forth. The player was a middle-aged man, dressed like a decent clerk or shopkeeper, his head shaded with an old straw hat rather too large for him, and on his feet—one of which swung as he sat with legs crossed—a pair of still more ancient slippers, also too ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
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Words linked to "Wheeze" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, suspire, respiration, breathe, UK, wheezy, Great Britain, strategy, ventilation, U.K., respire, breathing, United Kingdom, take a breath, Britain, external respiration, scheme


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