[f. WHEEZE v. + -ING2.] That wheezes; characterized by wheezing.
1560. Googe, trans. Palingenius’ Zodiac, III. (1561), F iv. Heare soundes with wheasyng noyse, The boxen shalme.
16[?]. Middleton, etc., Old Law, II. ii. A cough o’ the lungs, or say a wheezing matter.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 745. The wheasing Swine With Coughs is choak’d.
1730. Swift, Panegyr. Dean, 278. Wheezing asthma, loth to stir.
1874. Lisle Carr, Jud. Gwynne, i. The … dismal droning of the wheezing old organ.
1905. Sir F. Treves, Other Side of Lantern, II. xii. 90. I entered the hallowed town in a wheezing carriage.
Hence Wheezingly adv.
1844. N. Y. Herald, 18 Nov., 2/6.
| While dolorous upon the breeze, | |
| All wheezingly and wide, | |
| Like his own windy bellows, the | |
| ‘Poughkeepsie blacksmith’ sighed. |
1886. Homilet. Rev. (U. S.), Nov., 412. Wheezingly saying to himself in secret, ‘Soul, be of good cheer.’
1895. Zangwill, Master, II. ix. 233. He laughed wheezingly.
