Wheezy
['wiːzɪ] or ['wizi]
Definition
(a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Checker: Lorrie
Examples
- One corpulent slow boy, with a wheezy manner of breathing, ventured the answer, Because he wouldn't paper a room at all, but would paint it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Among these, two made themselves prominent by their peculiarity: one was a very strong bass, the other a wheezy thin piping. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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