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wheech /hwiːx / /hwiːk /(also wheek /hwiːk/) verb [with object] Scottish & Northern Irish1Snatch or remove (something) quickly: I wheeched the duvet off Gavin’s bed...- Any vision of utopia based on shiny automobiles to wheek you places quickly on rails is not mine.
- I successfully wheeked the lodged cotton bud out of my ear.
- The waiter was hovering constantly at my elbow, wheeking away breadcrumbs or tidying up around me.
1.1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] Rush; dash: I wheech down after him...- Words of uncertain origin but with a distinct onomatopoeic element include: birl to whirl, daud a thump or lump, dunt a thump, sclaff to slap, skrauch and skreich to shriek, wheech to move in a rush, yatter to chatter.
- He takes an age to lift it to the skies but eventually, wheech, up it goes, and we're all done and dusted.
- The entire nation passes the useless time watching the coloured balls wheek round each Saturday lottery evening.
OriginEarly 19th century: of imitative origin. |