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wheezy, a.|ˈhwiːzɪ|
[f. wheeze + -y1.]
Characterized by wheezing; resembling a wheeze.
1818Keats To a Cat 10 The wheezy asthma. 1822Good Study Med. I. 466 Many persons have a thick or wheezy respiration. 1843Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf., Ottilia ii, The Chancellor is..too fat and wheezy to preside at the Privy Council. 1892‘F. Anstey’ Voces Pop. Ser. ii. 13 A couple of Matrons converse in wheezy whispers.
b. transf. Making a wheezing sound.
1847Thackeray Love Songs, Cane-bottomed Chair, The rickety, ramshackle, wheezy spinet. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xii, A lean, wheezy old clock. 1889Jerome Three Men in Boat ix, The strains of ‘He's got 'em on’, jerked..out of a wheezy accordion.
Hence ˈwheezily adv., ˈwheeziness.
1884Punch 27 Dec. 306/2 Breath that comes not wheezily. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 288 More or less wheeziness and constriction of the chest. |