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Posted by: walte Nov 21 2009, 11:39 AM

I can't find the spelling on this word. This is from the Jalna series I am listening to. It has been brought up several times. In this last one, Renny wanted to "squeeze the weezen out of Bell." Any ideas?

Grins,
Diane

Posted by: Freond Nov 21 2009, 01:41 PM

QUOTE (walte @ Nov 21 2009, 11:39 AM)

Posted by: walte Nov 21 2009, 01:47 PM

I hadn't thought it to be made up. I thought it was a Canadian idiom from the 30's or 40's. I thought maybe someone had heard it before.


Diane

Posted by: rvw Nov 22 2009, 09:13 AM

QUOTE (walte @ Nov 21 2009, 11:39 AM)

Posted by: Tinker Grey Nov 22 2009, 10:22 AM

I really like that suggestion.

Posted by: walte Nov 22 2009, 12:01 PM

Yah! That makes sense! Thanks!


Diane

Posted by: ujay Nov 26 2009, 01:51 PM

Well, I wasn't quite happy with those explanations, as it is hard to imagine squeezing wheezing out of someone, so my online search led me to:

Boston medical and surgical journal, Volume 87
By Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, digitized by Google.

I'm not sufficiently adroit to copy the article here, but it states that "...The sallow, wheezen look of the natives of the northern states of America, is thought to be due to the indigestible preparation of Indian corn."

Perhaps this is the wheezen being referred to in Walte's book?

30 further minutes of my searching in online medical dictionaries came up with no definitions for "wheezen", so perhaps it is an archaic medical term.

ujay

Posted by: walte Nov 26 2009, 02:08 PM

QUOTE (ujay @ Nov 26 2009, 02:51 PM)

Well, I wasn't quite happy with those explanations, as it is hard to imagine squeezing wheezing out of someone, so my online search led me to:

Boston medical and surgical journal, Volume 87
By Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, digitized by Google.

I'm not sufficiently adroit to copy the article here, but it states that "...The sallow, wheezen look of the natives of the northern states of America, is thought to be due to the indigestible preparation of Indian corn."

Perhaps this is the wheezen being referred to in Walte's book?

30 further minutes of my searching in online medical dictionaries came up with no definitions for "wheezen", so perhaps it is an archaic medical term.

ujay