whee

Interjection

1. (childish) An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
   • Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side! Whee! Made it again!2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175
   • She twisted the rubber band extra tight. Sure enough, the tractor spun off much faster. Whee! She really liked to see it go fast on the living room floor.2001, Ricardo L Garcia, Coal camp days: a boy's remembrance

   Synonyms:

   whoopee, yay, yeah, yippee

Verb

whee (third-person singular simple present whees, present participle wheeing, simple past and past participle wheed)

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched sound.
   • What a wheeing dost thou keep, / Thou Minion of the Spring, / All the Winter long you sleep, / And all the Summer long you sing.1745, Ornithologia Nova; or a New General History of Birds, volume 2, “The nightingale”, page 286
   • Bullets ricocheted off the walls and the ceiling, wheeing by him, and his face stung from chips of stone.1970, Philip José Farmer, The Mad Goblin
2. (informal, intransitive) To cry whee.
   • Sometimes, we whee together, at the same time, for the same reason, feeling the same thing. And sometimes – these are the best of times – we can’t really tell who started the whee, or who’s wheeing more.2014, Bernard De Koven, A Playful Path, page 172
3. (US, colloquial, dated, often, transitive, with-up) To excite; to arouse; to energize.
   • In Princeton marches of eighty-seven, sixty, seventy-six, fifty-two, fifty-eight, thirty-two and sixty-two yards, in which he had the whole-hearted support of a wheed-up Tiger team, Kazmaier passed for three touchdowns, thirty-three and forty-five yards to wingback Dick Pivirotto, four yards to end...1952, Irving Marsh, Edward Ehre, Best Sports Stories, published 1952, page 146
   • Los Angeles Rams, wheed up by 102,368, largest crowd ever to watch NFL game, who jampacked Coliseum, controlled San Francisco's Y. A. Tittle, gave own Norm Van Brocklin plenty of passing room to upset Western Division-leading 49ers 37-24[…]1957 November 18, “Scoreboard”, in Sports Illustrated