wheezyadj.
/ˈwiːzi/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wizi/ a. Characterized by wheezing; resembling a wheeze.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adjective] > wheeze
wheezing1560
asthmatic1806
wheezling1808
wheezya1821
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > noisy breathing > wheezing
wheezing1560
wheezling1808
wheezya1821
sibilant1833
a1821 J. Keats Sonnet to Cat in Comic Annual (1830) 14 The wheezy asthma.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 466 Many persons have a thick or wheezy respiration.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Confessions of G. Fitz-Boodle: Ottilia ii The Chancellor is..too fat and wheezy to preside at the Privy Council.
1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 13 A couple of Matrons converse in wheezy whispers.
b. transferred. Making a wheezing sound.
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1847 W. M. Thackeray Cane-bottom'd Chair in Love Songs The rickety, ramshackle, wheezy spinet.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xii A lean, wheezy old clock.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat ix The strains of ‘He's got 'em on’, jerked..out of a wheezy accordion.
Derivatives
ˈwheezily adv.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adverb] > wheezing
wheezily1884
wheezingly1886
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adverb] > wheezing
wheezily1884
wheezingly1886
1884 Punch 27 Dec. 306/2 Breath that comes not wheezily.
ˈwheeziness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > noisy breathing > wheezing
wheezing1538
wheezling1808
wheezle1822
wheeze1834
wheeziness1898
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 288 More or less wheeziness and constriction of the chest.
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