Also 6 Sc. quhew. [Echoic.] intr. To whistle; to make a whistling or rustling noise; to utter the interjection whew! Hence Whewing vbl. sb.

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c. 1475.  Cath. Angl., 415/2 (Addit. MS.). To Whewe, fistulare.

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1590.  Burel, in Watson, Coll. Sc. Poems (1709), II. 31. Eyrus … With quhewing, renewing, His bitter blasts againe.

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1609.  Dekker, Gull’s Horn-bk., vi. 32. Mewe at passionate speeches, blare at merrie,… whew at the childrens Action, whistle at the songs.

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1765.  [see WHEW int.].

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1801.  Robt. Walker (Tim Bobbin 2nd), Plebeian Pol., 23. I met two pa’s’ns weh grete geawns on, whewink i’ th’ wind.

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1818.  Hogg, Brownie of Bodsbeck, iii. I heard them [sc. the plovers] aye whewing e’en an’ morn.

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1848.  Aird, Mother’s Blessing, I. i. Down all at once a wind Came whewing from the hollow of the hill.

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1896.  Idler, March, 324. Friend: ‘Whew—w!’ Man in Love (irritably) ‘Don’t go “whewing” all over the place like that.’

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