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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



... were my medical confreres. One of these was a tall, pale, ascetic-looking man, with grey hairs, and retreating forehead, slow in speech, and lugubrious in demeanour. The other, his antithesis, was a short, rosy-cheeked, apoplectic-looking subject, with a laugh like a suffocating wheeze, and a paunch like an alderman; his quick, restless eye, and full nether lip denoting more of the bon vivant than the abstemious disciple of Aesculapius. A moment's glance satisfied me, that if ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... he'll come around all right. Don't worry about that. Strong men don't go under from a cold in the head, or from a bit of wheeze in ...
— The Young Engineers in Nevada • H. Irving Hancock


Words linked to "Wheeze" :   wheezy, respire, UK, breathing, scheme, strategy, breathe, ventilation, respiration, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, U.K., suspire, take a breath, Great Britain, United Kingdom, external respiration


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