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wheeing

wheeing is the present participle and gerund of whee.

Meaning of whee

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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Questions about wheeing

What is wheeing the present participle and gerund of?
Wheeing is the present participle and gerund of whee.

Words near wheeing in the dictionary

  1. wheedlesome
  2. wheedling
  3. wheedlingly
  4. wheedlings
  5. wheedly
  6. wheeing
  7. wheek
  8. wheeked
  9. wheeking
  10. wheeks
  11. wheel

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