wheeze
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Is wheeze a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of wheeze?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.Examples: "Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle."; "He began to wheeze again, and tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks. Nate was laughing, too, infected by Check's contagious wheezing."; "Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom."slang
noun (English)
1. (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.Examples: "Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze."; "The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze: it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010."; "The Constitution cult in the US—deliberately stoked in the early twentieth century in a part as a bulwark against socialism—is a nastily brilliant wheeze by capitalism's apologists."BritishIrelandinformal
2. (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.Examples: "The new comedy is a wheeze."; "You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!"Synonyms: jokeslang
Definition source: Wiktionary