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whee

American  
[hwee, wee] / ʰwi, wi /

interjection

  1. (used to express joy or delight.)


whee British  
/ wiː /

interjection

  1. an exclamation of joy, thrill, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of whee

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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I can skate-board on Rocker without holding on to her, then I whee back onto Duvet and I'm snowboarding instead.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2010

Attitudes toward gambling have followed a cycle of restriction and permissiveness, moving, in the words of one historian, "from never to sometimes to whee!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Komitor continues: "Lean back, open your butterfly wings and whee!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet sometimes, thin and overdrawn, the poor child would come home from work in the whee hours of the morning with a wicked case of "the mean reds."

From Time Magazine Archive

They came at last, all in one night it seemed: “Whee, whee, whee.”

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon

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