Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a wheezing manner; as if with difficulty of breathing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
wheezy manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a wheeze
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wheezily.
Examples
-
It's also quite a pullback from arguably the most enduring postcrunch theme of them all, which held developed markets to be spent forces, wheezily marking time until their total eclipse.
Unrest May Not Be Only Reason Funds Are Shying From Emerging Markets Dave Cottle 2011
-
He laughed wheezily, and a plume of sour breath hit me.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
-
He laughed wheezily, and a plume of sour breath hit me.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
-
He laughed wheezily, and a plume of sour breath hit me.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
-
He laughed wheezily, and a plume of sour breath hit me.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
-
He laughed wheezily, and a plume of sour breath hit me.
The Faculty Club Danny Tobey 2010
-
The Army wheezily jokes that while an Army squad commonly has 12 men, a Marine squad has 13 — the extra is a PR officer.
-
Harrison laughs wheezily about that quote: "Mike would sacrifice everything in the world for one f--- ing witticism."
Jack Cries Wolf 2008
-
Both probably ended up keeping movement conservatism from wheezily expiring at the end of the first Bush administration.
Sunday Reading 2008
-
He lit one of his treasured Woodbines and coughed wheezily.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.