wheeze
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
wheeze (wheezes, present participle wheezing; past and past participle wheezed)
- To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
- If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
- French: respirer bruyamment, avoir du mal à respirer
- German: keuchen, röcheln, schnaufen, schwer atmen, pfeifend atmen; (regional) giemen
- Italian: ansimare, rantolare, anelare, boccheggiare, ansare
- Russian: хрипе́ть
- Spanish: jadear
wheeze (plural wheezes)
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Irish, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
- 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:
- Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.
- 2011 "Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy ↗", The Economist 19 November 2011:
- The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze: it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
- 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- The new comedy is a wheeze.
- You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!
- See also Thesaurus:joke
- German: Keuchen, Schnaufen, Röcheln
- Italian: rantolo, anelito
- Portuguese: sibilo
- Russian: хрип
- Spanish: silbido, sibilancia, estertor sibilante
- Russian: сценический шёпот
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