whee
interjectionverbattested in dialogue
- //wiː//
An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
interjection
- 1
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!
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.
It'll be a secret! Whee!
verb
- 1
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.
Bullets ricocheted off the walls and the ceiling, wheeing by him, and his face stung from chips of stone.
- 2
informalTo 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.
- 3
datedTo 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 Len Lyon.
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[…]
Forms
- past tense
- wheed
- past participle
- wheed
- present participle
- wheeing
- third person singular
- whees
whee · An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
wheel · A circular device capable of rotating on its axis,…wheelchair · A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use…wheeler · Someone who operates a wheel.