A Question about Wheezes..

Mon Sep 4 18:28:11 UTC 2000

No: HPFGUIDX 975

This is my first post. Just been catching up with digests.

  On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 19:36:59 -0000 "Jen Piersol" <jenP_97 at yahoo.com>
asked:

>Hi all.  Neil told me a (long) while ago what a Knickerbocker Glory
>was... and now I have another question for the British members of
>our club... does the word "wheezes" mean something specific in
>British English?  I have a vague memory of seeing it somewhere other
>than GoF, so it makes me suspect that it's not just a madeup word -
>I hope I'm not looking incredibly stupid for asking... and I hope
>I'm not the only American who's never heard of whatever wheezes
>are.... that is, if they actually do exist.

As no one seems to have answered this - the COED defines a wheeze (noun colloq. British) as  'a clever scheme'.

Vivienne