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▪ I. whew, n.1|hwjuː, hjuː, wjuː|
Forms: 5 Sc. qwe, whewe, 6 Sc. quhew, 7, 9 dial. whue, 9 wheugh, 7– whew.
[Echoic.]
†1. A musical instrument, a pipe. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 6051 For to wacche and to wake for wothis of harme, With qwistlis & qwes, & other qwaint gere. c1475Cath. Angl. 415/2 (Addit. MS.), A Whewe, fistula.
2. a. A sound as of whistling or of something rushing through the air; spec. the cry of the plover.
1513Douglas æneis vii. xi. 46 Than from the hevin dovne quhyrland wyth a quhew Come queyne Juno. c1610Robin Hood & Curtall Fryer xxxi. (Ritson), The fryer set his fist to his mouth, And whuted whues three. 1710Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas's æneis, Quhew, the sound which a bird's wings make in the air. Scot. Bor. a Few, vox ex sono conficta. a1784Rookhope Ryde x. in Scott Minstrelsy, Then oer the moss, where as they came, With many a brank and whew. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. vi, The whew of lead still singing in their ears. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xiii. 289 The yelping of the guid-guid, and the sudden whew⁓whew of the cheucau. 1851H. Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) II. 22 The shrill whew of the plover.
b. dial. A factory hooter.
1869J. Hartley Halifax Clock Almanack 48 Yond's th' whew, soa we mun goa an' do another bit for th' maister. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iv. 118 Bruddersford has an elaborate system of factory buzzers—usually known as whews. 1934― Eng. Journey vi. 194 Time for them had been marked by the sound of its [sc. the mill's] hooter—locally known as a ‘whew’.
3. An utterance of the interjection whew!
1751Smollett Per. Pic. xxii. [xix], He uttered a long and loud whew! which was succeeded by an exclamation of ‘Damn my old shoes! a bite by G―!’ 1847Helps Friends in C. i. iii, A sound from the old oak, like an ‘ah’ or a ‘whew’. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xix, At sight of which Yeo gave a long wheugh.
4. (Also whew-duck) = whewer.
1804T. Bewick Brit. Birds II. 352 Wigeon. Whewer, Whim, or Pandled Whew. 1852Macgillivray Brit. Birds V. 83 Mareca Penelope. The European Wigeon. Common Wigeon. Whew Duck. Pandle-Whew.
▪ II. whew, n.2 dial.
[f. whew v.2]
A hurry; esp. in phr. all of a whew, in a hurry, impatient or excited.
1905in Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 453/1 Sec a whew he's in. 1922A. Brown Old Crow xi. 119 He wants me to go down in his river pastur', choppin'. All of a whew to git at it.
▪ III. whew, v.1|hwjuː, hjuː, wjuː|
Also 6 Sc. quhew.
[Echoic.]
intr. To whistle; to make a whistling or rustling noise; to utter the interjection whew! Hence ˈwhewing vbl. n.
c1475Cath. Angl. 415/2 (Addit. MS.), To Whewe, fistulare. 1590J. Burel in Watson Coll. Sc. Poems (1709) ii. 31 Evrus..With quhewing, renewing, His bitter blasts againe. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. vi. 32 Mewe at passionate speeches, blare at merrie,..whew at the childrens Action, whistle at the songs. 1765[see whew int.]. 1801R. Walker (Tim Bobbin 2nd) Plebeian Pol. 23, I met two pa's'ns weh grete geawns on, whewink i' th' wind. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck iii, I heard them [sc. the plovers] aye whewing e'en an' morn. 1848Aird Mother's Blessing i. i, Down all at once a wind Came whewing from the hollow of the hill. 1896Idler Mar. 324 Friend: ‘Whew―w!’ Man in Love (irritably) ‘Don't go ‘whewing’ all over the place like that.’
▪ IV. whew, v.2|hwjuː, wjuː|
Also wheugh, whue, whiew.
[perh. the same as prec.]
a. intr. To move quickly; to hurry away, depart abruptly (dial.); to bustle about (U.S.).
1684Otway Atheist iii. i, Methought indeed the Coach whew'd it away a little faster than ordinary. a1743Relph Misc. Poems (1747) 17 See! owr the field the whurlin sun⁓shine whiews. 1828Craven Gloss. s.v., ‘To whew off,’ to turn off abruptly, to depart without ceremony. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxxiii. (1876) 427 Bel Bree had not been brought up in a New England farm-house, and seen her capable stepmother ‘whew round’, to be hard put to it now over half a dozen cups and tumblers more or less.
▪ V. whew, int.|hwjuː, hjuː|
Forms: 5 Sc. quhewe, 7 wheu heu, 7–8 wheu, 8 whieu, whu, 8–9 whuh, 9 wheugh, 6– whew.
An exclamation of the nature of a whistle uttered by a person as a sign of astonishment, disgust, dismay, etc.
The identity of the word in the first quot. is uncertain.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxix. 4949 (MS. Auchinl.) Ȝhit þai wiþin set wp a schout And cryit lowde and said ‘Quhewe! [v.r. Quhow] Now haif we heire the Montagew’. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 30 A plague vpon't, when Theeues cannot be true one to another. They Whistle. Whew: a plague light vpon you all. 1601W. Percy Cuckqueanes etc. iii. iv. (Roxb.) 38 Don... Come on thy ways. Joi. I come. Pig. Wheu heu, wheu heu, now goe thy wayes. 1728Ramsay The Lure 110 Whieu,—Whieu,—he whistled. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. xxii, Whu—v—w—whew—w—w—whuved Margarita. 1766Ibid. IX. xxxiii, Wheu—u—u— cried my father; beginning the sentence with an exclamatory whistle. 1770Cumberland West Indian ii. viii, Whuh! What's the hurry the man's in? 1800E. D. Clarke in Life (1824) v. 433 And now let the scene change—Whew!—away with inscriptions! 1815Scott Guy M. xxxix, ‘But how did your joint production look the next morning?’.. ‘Wheugh! capital—not three words required to be altered.’ 1838Dickens O. Twist xliv, Whew! said the housebreaker, wiping the perspiration from his face. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxxii, ‘Whew!’ ejaculated Roden, when the danger seemed to be past, and they could breathe again.
▪ VI. whew
obs. form of hue n.1 |