whee
verb1
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.1745, Ornithologia Nova; or a New General History of Birds, volume 2, “The nightingale”, page 286:
- Bullets ricocheted off the walls and the ceiling, wheeing by him, and his face stung from chips of stone.1970, Philip José Farmer, The Mad Goblin:
2
Informal To 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.2014, Bernard De Koven, A Playful Path, page 172:
3
US, Colloquial, Dated, Often, With up To 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.1952, Irving Marsh, Edward Ehre, Best Sports Stories, published 1952, page 146:
- 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[…]1957 November 18, “Scoreboard”, in Sports Illustrated: