different between whee vs zhee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: oui, we, wee, Wii (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Interjection

whee

1. (childish) An expression of pleasure or enjoyment, mostly from rapid physical motion.
   • 2001, Ricardo L Garcia, Coal camp days: a boy's remembrance

     She twisted the rubber band extra tight. Sure enough, the tractor spun off much faster. Whee! She really liked to see it go fast on the living room floor.

   • 2009, Phil and Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius, Volume 9, p. 81:

     It'll be a secret! Whee!

Synonyms

• (childish expression of enjoyment): whoopee, yay, yeah, yippee

Translations

Verb

whee (third-person singular simple present whees, present participle wheeing, simple past and past participle wheed)

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched sound.
2. (intransitive, informal) To cry whee.
3. (transitive, US, colloquial, dated, often with up) To excite, to arouse, to energize.

Anagrams

• hewe

English

Etymology

From Pitman zee, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.

Noun

zhee (plural zhees)

1. The letter for the zh sound /?/ in Pitman shorthand.

Related terms

• ish
• ezh, the name of the IPA letter for this sound