English Dictionary

whee

IPA（発音記号）

/wiː/

動詞

自動詞 くだけた表現 アメリカ英語 口語 古風 頻度副詞 他動詞 句動詞（with + up）

(intransitive) To make a high-pitched sound. / (intransitive, informal) To cry whee. / (transitive, US, colloquial, dated, often with up) To excite, to arouse, to energize.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）高音の音を発する。 / （自動詞、口語）歓声を上げる、または「whee」と叫ぶ。 / （他動詞、米国口語、時代的表現、しばしば「up」と共に用いられる）興奮させる、刺激する、活気づける。

The children whee with excitement as the sled sped down the snowy hill.

ソリが雪の丘を猛スピードで下ると、子どもたちはきゃーっと歓声を上げた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（2）

(intransitive, 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.

意味（3）

(transitive, 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.

whees （ present singular third-person ）

wheeing （ participle present ）

wheed （ participle past ）

wheed （ past ）