WHEEZE, WHEEZINESS, WHEEZING, WHEEZY
ADJECTIVES
► HEAZY hoarse, breathing with difficulty, wheezing → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PURFLED of a person: stout and fleshy, with a ruddy complexion; wheezing → 1737 Sc.
► PURFLY of a person: stout and fleshy, with a ruddy complexion; wheezing → 1832 Sc. obs.
► PURSY short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic → 1440 chiefly Eng. dial.
► THICK-LIFTED short-winded, wheezy, breathing with difficulty → 1746 Eng. dial.
► TISSICKING asthmatic, wheezy → 1890 Eng. dial.
► TIZZICKY asthmatic, wheezy → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► HEAZE wheeziness; asthmatic breathing → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► EAZE to wheeze → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► HEAZE to breathe thickly and with difficulty; to wheeze; to cough or ‘hawk’ → 1788 Eng. dial.
► OOZLE to wheeze → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUEASE ► QUEESE to wheeze → 1887 Sc.
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