wheed

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
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

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