Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - wheeze
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(wheezes, wheezing, wheezed) If someone wheezes, they breathe with difficulty and make a whistling sound. He had quite serious problems with his chest and wheezed and coughed all the time... ‘Boy,’ wheezed old Pop Ryan. VERB: V, V with quote ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. intransitive verb (~d; wheezing) Etymology: Middle English whesen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse hv?sa to hiss; akin to Old English hw?st action of blowing, Sanskrit svasiti he blows, snorts Date: 15th century 1. to breathe with difficulty usually with a whistling sound 2. to make a sound resembling that of wheezing the bellows ~d II. noun Date: 1800 1. a sound of wheezing 2. a. an often repeated and widely known joke used especially by entertainers b. a trite saying or proverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. breathe with an audible chesty whistling sound. 2 tr. (often foll. by out) utter in this way. --n. 1 a sound of wheezing. 2 colloq. a Brit. a clever scheme. b an actor's interpolated joke etc. c a catch-phrase. Derivatives wheezer n. wheezingly adv. wheezy adj. (wheezier, wheeziest). wheezily adv. wheeziness n. Etymology: prob. f. ON hv{aelig}sa to hiss ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. сопение; тяжелое дыхание, одышка; хрип 2. сл. острота, шутка, анекдот a good wheeze —- остроумный анекдот 3. сл. проделка, шутка 4. избитая фраза; шаблонные слова 5. избитый трюк, всем известная уловка 6. дышать с присвистом; пыхтеть, сопеть; хрипеть 7. прохрипеть (какие-л. слова; также wheeze out) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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out прохрипеть WHEEZE 1. noun 1) тяжелое дыхание, одышка, хрип 2) theatr. отсебятина 3) coll. трюк, уловка 4) coll. блестящая идея 2. v. дышать с присвистом; хрипеть - wheeze out ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1460, probably from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. hvoesa "to hiss," Dan. hvжse) cognate with O.E. hwжst "act of blowing." Noun is first recorded 1834. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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