Also wheugh, whue, whiew. [perh. the same as prec.] a. intr. To move quickly; to hurry away, depart abruptly (dial.); to bustle about (U.S.)
1684. Otway, Atheist, III. i. Methought indeed the Coach whew’d it away a little faster than ordinary.
a. 1743. J. Relph, Misc. Poems (1747), 17. See! owr the field the whurlin sunshine whiews.
1828. Craven Gloss., s.v., ‘To whew off,’ to turn off abruptly, to depart without ceremony.
1873. Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls, xxxiii. (1876), 427. Bel Bree had not been brought up in a New England farm-house, and seen her capable stepmother ‘whew round,’ to be hard put to it now over half a dozen cups and tumblers more or less.
