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▪ I. wheep, n.
[Echoic.]
A long-drawn sound of a steel weapon drawn from its sheath.
1891Kipling Life's Hand., Head Distr. v, The soft wheep, wheep of unscabbarded knives. 1905Crockett Cherry Ribband xlvi, With the long clean wheep of steel leaving steel, he unsheathed his sword.
Sense in Dict. becomes 2. Add: Also wheap.
1. a. Sc. A small shrill cry, as of a plover or similar bird; any slight high-pitched sound (freq. in negative contexts: cf. peep n.1 2 b). Cf. wheeple n. s.v. wheeple v. b. A whistling bleep, similar to the cry of a plover, made by electronic equipment.
1860J. Young Poorhouse Lays 115 Tho' noo a vexin', sickly wheap, Is a' thy sang. 1879J. Guthrie Poems 56 You did'na need to roar to Dan—Just gie a wheep. 1894‘Vathek’ Brechin 8 It takes a noise almost enough to wake the dead to get people to start work, it only requires one short, sharp ‘wheep’ to get them to leave off. 1983S. Heaney Sweeney Astray 55 Whoever of us is the first to hear..the wheep of a plover disturbed in its sleep..let him warn the other. 1984N.Y. Times 1 June c14/3 They all seem to believe wholeheartedly in the ‘Star Trek’ saga, relishing every bit of jargon,..every wheep and bleep of their computer screens.
▪ II. wheep, v. Sc. and north. dial.|hwiːp|
[Imitative.]
= wheeple v.
1808Jamieson, To Wheep, 1. To give a sharp whistle at intervals. 2. To squeak. 1894A. Reid Sangs o' Heatherld. 39 The plover wheepit owre the lea.
▪ III. wheep
Sc. form of whip. |