wheeze

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

• If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.

To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.slang

• Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.
• He began to wheeze again, and tears rolled down his furrowed cheeks. Nate was laughing, too, infected by Check's contagious wheezing.

To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.

• "Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land."
• One boy in a black tuxedo and red shoes plays a wheezing accordion like a roadside undertaker.

A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

An ulterior scheme or plan.IrelandUKinformal

• Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.
• ‘It’s got a file and rope ladder in it and if you was a bit older I’d make you eat them both raw for trying to put such a moth-eaten old wheeze over on me.’

Something very humorous or laughable.slang

• The new comedy is a wheeze.
• You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!

A sound that resembles a human wheezing.

• At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died.