Wheezy

Definitions: Wheezy

Wheezy

Adjective

1. Having a tone of a reed instrument.

2. Relating to breathing with a whistling sound.

Date "wheezy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Synonyms: Wheezy

Synonyms: asthmatic (adj), reedy (adj), wheezing (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Since I moved up like George and Wheezy (Gettin' Jiggy Wit It; performing artist: Will Smith)
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Domain	Title
Books	Wheezy (reference) (more book examples)
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"Wheezy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wheezy" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	27	66,962

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wheezy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		asmaties (asthmatic), aamborstig (asthmatic). (various references)

Albanian		shpirraq, astmatik (asthmatic). (various references)

Arabic		‏صافر (whistling), ‏آز. (various references)

Bulgarian		хъхрещ, хриптящ, хрипкав (furry, stertorous, stridulant). (various references)

Czech		sípavý, dýchavièný (asthmatic, broken-winded, pursy), astmatický (asthmatic). (various references)

Dutch		kortademig (asthmatic), astmatisch (asthmatic), aamborstig (asthmatic). (various references)

Esperanto		astma (asthmatic). (various references)

French		asthmatique. (various references)

Frisian		nearboarstich (asthmatic). (various references)

German		keuchend (gasping, panting, rasping, wheezing). (various references)

Greek		ασθματικόσ (asthmatic, puffy, pursy), ασθμαίνων (gasping, panting, wheezing, winded). (various references)

Hebrew		שורקני (sibilant). (various references)

Hungarian		ziháló (heaving). (various references)

Irish		múchtach (asthmatic), gearranÚlach (asthmatic). (various references)

Italian		affannoso (breathless, labored, laboured, pursy, worried). (various references)

Manx		peeaghaneagh (congested, hoarse, raucous, throaty). (various references)

Papiamen		asmátiko (asthmatic). (various references)

Pig Latin		eezywhay

Portuguese		oxidado (rusty), enferrujado (rusty, smutty), com ferrugem, asmático (asthmatic). (various references)

Russian		страдающий одышкой (pursy, short of breath, short winded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šišteći. (various references)

Spanish		ruidoso (blatant, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rowdy, rumbustious, vocal). (various references)

Swedish		rosslig. (various references)

Turkish		hırıltılı (growling, snarling, stertorous), hırıldayan, cızırtılı (scratchy, sizzling, squeaky, stray). (various references)

Ukranian		хрипкий (hoarse, husky), хриплий (raucous). (various references)

Welsh		gwichlyd (creaking). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Wheezy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chedzoy, heezy, weezy, wheay, wheeny, wheesh, wheresy, wheyey, whezy, whezzy, whizy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-w-y-z"
	-2 letters: whee, whey.
	-3 letters: ewe, eye, hew, hey, wee, why, wye, yeh, yew, zee.
	-4 letters: eh, he, we, ye.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-w-y-z"
	+2 letters: wheezily.
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