whizzwhizn.1
/wɪz/, /hwɪz/, U.S. /(h)wɪz/ 1.
a. An act, or the action, of whizzing; a sibilant sound somewhat less shrill than a hiss, and having a trace of musical tone like a buzz; a swift movement producing such a sound.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > with or as with sound
whirra1400
whizzing1607
whizz1620
whizziness1839
whooshing1976
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > rushing sibilant sound > whizz
whither?a1505
whizzing1607
whizz1620
whithering1787
zip1850
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum i. lxi. 221 Through skies by night shee flingeth, and Her whizze earth's darknesse teares.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 74 Their shot would go by their ears with a Whizz . View more context for this quotation
1713 A. Pope in Guardian 26 June 1/2 He never once Duck'd at the whizz of a Cannon Ball.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 20 Like the whiz of my Cross-bow.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. ix. 130 The whiz and scream of the arriving trains.
c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 78 Shall we lumber along the road, and allow other nations to pass us with a whiz?
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. ix. 105 Amid a whizz of scythe-blades.
b. The practice of picking pockets (chiefly in on the whizz); a pickpocket. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > [noun]
pocket-picking1662
palmistry1711
pickpocketing1742
filing-lay1743
pickpocketry1756
buzzing1819
fogle drawing1823
fogle hunting1823
pickpocketism1830
cly-faking1862
dipping1882
prat-digging1908
whizz1925
whizzing1925
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1925 E. Jervis Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons i. 17 Some of the boys are ‘on the whiz’ (pickpockets).
1931 Amer. Speech 7 117 Whiz, n. A pick-pocket.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 245 They might pinch him for being on the whizz.
1963 T. Tullett Inside Interpol xii. 162 The pickpocket, known in the underworld as the ‘whiz’..is always a specialist.
2. U.S. slang. An agreement, ‘bargain’.The relation to sense 1 is not clear.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xl. 426 They said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here..And each..said, It is a whiz.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxxiii. 256 ‘If we don't find it I'll agree to give you my drum and everything I've got.’..‘All right—it's a whiz.’
1888 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. ‘You will have to play that you are a boy, that I am master..Is it a whizz?’ he asked.
3. An act of urination. slang.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination
pissinga1398
urine1561
urination1599
staling1601
miction1663
urining1668
piss?1837
piddle1870
micturating1879
pee1880
pee-wee1909
wet1925
peeing1929
leak1934
Jimmy Riddle1937
wee-wee1937
tinkle1939
run-off1944
slash1950
No. 11965
wee1968
widdle1969
gypsy's kiss1971
Jimmy1971
whizz1971
gypsy's1972
void1980
wazz1994
1971 D. Clark Sick to Death i. 21 She could have left him alone..while she went for a whizz or changed her clothes.
Compounds
whizz-boy n. a pickpocket.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1931 M. Allingham Police at Funeral vii. 95 How many murders do we get in this class... It's navvies, whizz-boys, car thieves..who run off the rails and commit murder.
1959 Listener 12 Mar. 485/1 The quick-fingered craft of those whom the Elizabethans called nips and we call whizz boys.
whizz-man n. slang = whizz-boy n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1932 ‘S. Wood’ Shades of Prison House xix. 278 There one may rub shoulders with..thieves of every type, whiz-men, burglars, car-bandits.
1938 F. Chester Shot Full xxv. 285 I used to frequent a number of public-houses, used by ‘the boys’, as criminals are known among the English. There were screwsmen,..‘whizz-men’,..and ‘drag-men’.
whizz-mob n. slang a gang of pickpockets.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket > gang or class of
swell mob1836
whizz-mob1929
1929 G. Dilnot Triumphs of Detection iv. 47 A ‘wizz mob’ which operated, say, at Hammersmith Broadway, would immediately suspend business..if they saw a local detective in the vicinity.
1941 J. Phelan Murder by Numbers v. 53 ‘Putting a smother they call it... Crowd cover up something...’ ‘I see. Like a whizz mob—pickpockets, I mean.’
1955 D. Webb Deadline for Crime iii. 52 Provincial police forces looked to him for help when they wanted their towns cleared of the ‘whiz mob’, as English pickpockets are known in the underworld.
Draft additions March 2003
British slang. Also wiz, wizz. Amphetamine; (also) amphetamines collectively. Cf. speed n. 7.
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1988 Which? July 334/1 (heading) Amphetamines (sometimes known as speed, whizz, sulphate).
1993 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 65 Dealers face tough competition in the drugs market: spliff (hashish).., whizz (amphetamines)..and Charlie (cocaine) are packaged in decorated containers with bright colours or sexy illustrations.
1995 J. Cocker Sorted for E's & Wizz (transcribed from song) in ‘Pulp’ Different Class That's okay 'cos we're all sorted out for E's & wizz.
2001 M. Steel Reasons to be Cheerful ii. 19 I've still got some of that whizz left over from Steve's party.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
whizzwhizn.2
/wɪz/, /hwɪz/, U.S. /(h)wɪz/ slang (originally U.S.).
a. Something very remarkable.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > a marvel, object of wonder
wonderc700
wonderinga1100
selcouthc1175
sellya1200
ferlyc1275
wondernessc1275
wonder thingc1290
adventurec1300
marvelc1300
marvellingc1400
wonderelc1440
signc1450
admiration1490
wonderment1542
wondering stockc1555
miracle-worker1561
singularity1576
stupor mundi1587
miracle1595
marvellation1599
portent1607
astonishment1611
prodigy1616
magnale1623
magnality1646
mirable1646
phenomenon1741
gaping-stock1817
reacher1825
stunner1829
buster1833
caution1834
merry-go-rounder1838
knock-down1843
astonisher1871
marvelry1874
mazer1876
phenom1881
whizzer1888
knock-out1892
whizz1908
doozy1916
doozer1930
heart-stopper1940
blockbuster1942
ooh-ah1957
mind-blower1968
stonker1987
1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vii. 157 It is not only a whiz, but a hummah! You are in on the ground flo' of King Solomon's Mines, Limited.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 45 ‘Wonderful night.’ ‘It's a whiz.’
1959 Times 7 Dec. 13/3 Here are some of the gifts I have given to children in recent years: a massive iron key that could surely unlock the deepest dungeon in Nottingham Castle and makes a whizz of a paper-weight.
b. A person who is wonderfully skilful or talented in some respect.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > exceptionally skilled person
wizard1620
virtuoso1682
jumbo1823
ace1840
crackerjack1895
mivvy1906
whizz1914
whizzo1977
1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 20 A person is designated as a ‘Whizz’ when he has exceptional ability along one or more lines.
1921 H. Crane Let. 1 Oct. (1965) 66 I..have a strong notion that as a copy writer I will eventually make a ‘whiz’.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xiii. 142 Millie done fixed my game laig up with that ointment good as new. I want to tell you-all that girl is a wiz.
1928 S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge i. 36 He thinks he's such a wiz at cars, but..he couldn't locate that squeak.
1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 69 He's an absolute whizz at Malicious Animal Magnetism.
1962 E. B. White Let. 13 July (1976) 493 You chose a real whiz..when you picked me for your grammarian.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 211 Malnik was well known..as an associate of long-time mob financial wiz Meyer Lansky.
1982 Financial Times 22 June 9/2 He has since become a whizz at ping pong.
1984 New Yorker 9 July 35/3 Little Nick Silver, a math whiz from Toughkenamon..was the youngest kid at camp.
1984 Times 18 Oct. 14/6 I have a whizz of an accountant who will probably arrange things.
Compounds
whiz-kid n. (also whizz-kid) an exceptionally successful or brilliant young person, esp. in politics or business.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person
miracle1595
masterpiece1648
wonderling1658
prodigya1684
phenomenon1839
caution1870
astonisher1871
mazer1876
phenom1881
knock-out1892
superman1925
Wunderkind1930
whiz-kid1960
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > and talented
Wunderkind1930
whiz-kid1960
1960 Time 21 Nov. 100/1 The ‘Whiz Kids’—as the team soon was known.
1962 Economist 22 Dec. 1202/1 Critics..regard President Kennedy as a quiz-kid surrounded by whiz-kids.
1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory ix. 103 Zerah Colburn was an early nineteenth-century mathematical whiz-kid.
1976 Time 27 Dec. 13/1 The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post.
1977 M. Drabble Ice Age i. 27 Anthony was watching unedited film of an interview with Len the property whizz kid.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 1079/5 Editors are a humble and obscure race; lacking the glamour of the whiz-kids and wheeler-dealers.., they are rarely seen in polite society, their names unknown to the columns of The Bookseller.
1981 Sunday Express 25 Jan. 17/1 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will meet Britain's latest whizz-kid inventor when she hosts a unique gathering of inventors and financiers at Downing Street tomorrow.
whiz-kiddery n. (also whizz-kiddery) the phenomenon of whizz-kids; the style or mode of work of a whizz-kid.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > and talented > style or mode of a whizz-kid
whiz-kiddery1967
1967 Economist 24 June 1353/3 The whole programme has been a curious hotch-potch of whiz-kidery, preconceived theory and painstaking trial-and-error pragmatism.
1976 Observer 26 Sept. 8/1 Many in the institutions—banks insurance companies, investment funds, Stock Exchange and so on—who swallowed whizz-kiddery in its myriad forms.
1977 Times 4 July 22/3 Whizz~kiddery is out; gravitas is in.
1985 Times 22 June 9/5 We have often been tempted to listen to the siren voices of those who would advise..the latest radical church services, guitars and steel bands and other forms of whizkiddery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
whizzwhizv.
/wɪz/, /hwɪz/, U.S. /(h)wɪz/ 1. † b. To wheeze. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To make a sound as of a body rushing through the air (see whizz n.1); (of trees) to rustle; (of a burning or hot object) to hiss, sizzle. Now dialect.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > rushing sibilant sound > whizz
whither1487
whizza1547
whizzle1582
zip1852
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Bivv As wrastling windes..Befight themselues,..The woods do whiz.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 43 Thee flams surmounting tenements doo whize to the skyward.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs vii. 20 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Daphnis..sat him downe vnder a whizzing holme.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) vi. 199 The fire whizzes in burning eyes.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 85 'Tis dry—'twill burn—Ha, ha! how my old Husband crackles there!.. I know him; he'll but whiz, and strait go out.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Apr. (1948) I. 239 Is Dilly gone to the Bath? His face will whizz in the water.
1763 G. Colman in Terræ Filius July 7 8 Some queer old Gentleman may be alarmed at the Crackers bouncing about his Ears..or a Squib whizzing in his Periwig.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Whiz, to hiss like hot iron in water.
1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a Year i The sound of his tea-kettle, hissing, whizzing, sputtering in the agonies of boiling over.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > breathe noisily > wheeze
wheezea1500
whizz1607
wheezle1779
1607 [implied in: E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 11 Their [sc. baboons'] voyce is a shrill whizing. (at whizzing n. 1a)].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pigeonneau Il a mangé les pigeonneaux, said of a man that whizzes, or speakes hoarse.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 134/2 A Baboon Whizeth, hath a Shrill Whizing.
1748 [implied in: tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 183 He makes a whizzing Noise in his Breast. (at whizzing adj. 1b)].
2.
a. To move swiftly with or as with such a sound.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly with or as with sound
thunderc1374
hurtle1509
rattle1555
skirr1567
whizz1591
brustle1638
clatter1810
whoosh1856
fizz1864
zoon1880
zing1899
skoosh1904
zoom1924
scream1943
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > rushing sibilant sound > whizz > move with
whizz1591
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso ix. lxix. 70 The shot gainst which no armour can suffice,..Whiszes and sings.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 123 The Hauke comes whizzing on.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 44 The exhalations, whizzing in the ayre, Giue so much light, that I may reade by them. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 573 When the Jav'lin whizz'd along the Skies.
a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1723) II. 8 Both of us sitting together on the quarter-deck, heard a bullet whizzing over our heads.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 343 How the coit Whizzed from the Stripling's arm! View more context for this quotation
1853 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 9 Aug. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. i. 13 The small, black steamers, whizzing industriously along.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels xiii. §2 Watching for the motors that whizzed..along the straight white road.
b. figurative. To have a sensation of such a sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [verb (intransitive)] > ringing, etc., in ears
ringa1425
sing1621
whizz1797
1797 [implied in: T. Morton Cure for Heart-ache i. ii. 11 Such a whizzing and spinning in my head. (at whizzing n. 1a)].
1854 [implied in: A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 399 She complain'd of such a whuzzing in her ears. (at whizzing n. 1a)].
1865 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 34 Reading makes my head whiz.
1898 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. V. 818 Whizzings in the head..are complained of.
c. transferred. To move in a lively manner; to progress well; to ‘go strong’.
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1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 139 But I really believe you have fallen on a better thing than any I ever struck. I could make it whiz.
d. To pass along or round rapidly or with a whizzing sound.
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1911 H. S. Harrison Queed i. 6 Delivery wagons whizzed corners and bumped on among them.
3. transitive. To cause to whizz; to hurl, shoot, or convey swiftly with a whizz; spec. in technical use, to dry by centrifugal force in a rapidly revolving apparatus (cf. whizzer n. 1(b)).
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > at speed
shootc1075
whirlc1386
whizz1836
rocket1837
spear1920
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > other processes
cure1633
scribe1678
refinish1820
retort1850
prick1872
supple1876
whizz1882
steam-cure1910
linish1971
1836 W. Irving Astoria xlv He was on the point of whizzing a bullet into the target.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. vii. 152 A Balearic slinger about to whizz the stone.
1882 W. Crookes Dyeing & Tissue-printing 228 Enter at 112° F., raise to a boil in three turns, wash well, whiz, and dry.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 39 Most of the wool is ‘whizzed’ after drying.
4. intransitive. To urinate. slang.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]
migheeOE
pissc1300
to make water?a1475
stale1530
leak1598
urinate1599
minge1606
urine1607
water1631
stroana1730
to pass water1738
to pump ship1759
piddle1784
to make one's burn1788
pittle1801
pee1825
micturate1842
tiddlea1852
leck1922
wet1925
whizz1929
wee-wee1930
wee1934
widdle1934
to go (make) wee-wee1937
tinkle1943
void1947
to take a leak1969
potty1972
slash1973
wazz1984
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 24 I wish I was a gentleman As full of wet as a watering-can To whizz in the eye of a police-man.
1976 R. B. Parker Promised Land vii. 37 I wondered if anyone had ever whizzed on Allan Pinkerton's shoe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
whizzwhizint.adv.
/wɪz/, /hwɪz/, U.S. /(h)wɪz/ An exclamation imitating the sound described under whizz n.1, whizz v.; as adv. = with a whizz. Cf. gee whiz int. and adj., whizz-bang n., adj., and int.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [adverb] > specific exclamations
whizz1812
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations
oeOE
heya1225
ouc1300
we13..
hac1320
how1377
how now?c1380
vaha1382
ha a!c1386
ha ha!c1386
hoa1400
ohoa1400
yowc1440
yoa1475
heh1475
hey ho?c1475
huffc1485
wemaya1500
whewa1500
wow1513
huffa?1520
gup?1528
ist1540
whow1542
hougha1556
whoo1570
good-now1578
ooh1602
phew1604
highday1606
huh1608
whoo-whoop1611
sessaa1616
tara1672
hegh1723
hip1735
waugha1766
whoofa1766
jee1786
goody1796
yaw1797
hech1808
whoo-ee1811
whizz1812
yah1812
soh1815
sirs1816
how1817
quep1822
soho1825
ow1834
ouch1838
pfui1838
suz1844
shoo1845
yoop1847
upsadaisy1862
houp-la1870
hooch1871
nu1892
ouff1898
upsy1903
oo-er1909
ooh-wee1910
eina1913
oops1921
whoopsie1923
whoops-a-daisy1925
hot-cha-cha1929
upsadaisy1929
walla1929
hotcha1931
hi-de-ho1936
po po po1936
ho-de-ho1941
oh, oh1944
oopsy1956
chingas1984
bambi2007
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [interjection] > whizz
piff1654
zip1678
whizz1812
phit1838
whee-oh1915
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adverb] > rushing sibilant sound > whizz
whizz1812
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 69 The water..bubbled and simmer'd and started off, whizz!
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor vii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 133 Whiz went the bolt.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 212 When whiz and thump went axe.
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