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▪ I. whee, int.|hwiː|
[Echoic.]
An exclamation of joy, exhilaration, astonishment, etc. Occas. as n., a high-pitched sound resembling this.
[1918E. A. Mackintosh War, the Liberator iv. 145 Whee-ee-ee-errump! The air was full of dust and smoke from a little way up the trench.] 1920S. Lewis in Sat. Even. Post 11 Dec. 10/1 ‘Whee!’.. He sprang up, posed like the Statue of Liberty, hurled a pillow at her. 1944E. S. Gardner Case of Black-Eyed Blonde (1948) xx. 205 The little boy shrieked with delight. ‘Whee-eee-ee,’ he cried. 1960M. Macdonald in G. Maxwell Ring of Bright Water xii. 168 Her [sc. the otter's] basic conversational vocabulary was a high-pitched whistling ‘Whee’. With loud and soft, short and long and other variations of ‘Whees’ she had quite a lot to say. 1978N. Freeling Night Lords v. 24 Whee, thought Castang: he has worked fast. 1981Studia Mystica IV. iv. 34 A cry of ‘Whee!’
▪ II. whee, v.|hwiː|
[f. prec.]
a. trans. With up. To stimulate, excite. U.S. colloq.
b. intr. To utter a high-pitched sound.
1949Sat. Even. Post 3 Dec. 3/3 And did that whee him up to do his Christmas shopping early? 1960M. Macdonald in G. Maxwell Ring of Bright Water xii. 171 She [sc. an otter] would lie on the floor..‘wheeing’ plaintively. 1966N.Y. Times 17 Apr. v. 2, I was all wheed up, feeling great, I knew I would win. 1971Atlantic Monthly Mar. 36, I got so patriotically wheed up that I ended by calling for three cheers for General Douglas MacArthur.
▪ III. whee
see quey. |