wheeze.
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
Meaning & usage
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
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.
An ulterior scheme or plan.
Something very humorous or laughable.
The new comedy is a wheeze.
You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!
A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
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