Modifying Another Word

• slightly: The male's song is a medley of slightly wheezy warbling notes, usually sung from a perch in a tree.

• little: Just a little wheezy, Susan, are you not?

Modifies a noun

• chest: I have a cough and wheezy chest, which I have put down to dust.

• engine: Only the old wheezy engines in the base models give the game away that Ka is no longer a fresh design.

• child: What do parents of wheezy children understand by ' wheeze ' ?

• bronchitis: A better term for his condition might be wheezy bronchitis although this description has rather gone out of fashion.

• organ: Andrew Benson-Wilson is equally skilled in coaxing the wheezy old organ at Knole into life and in playing with fleetness and clarity.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Some people with asthma react to the NSAIDs by getting more wheezy.

• become: Children with asthma should not be excluded from exercise but may become wheezy.