Adjective: wheelie
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | wheelier |
| Superlative | wheeliest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more wheelie |
| Superlative | most wheelie |
Sample Sentences
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wheelie bag wheelie bin
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He took the remaining fillet from the fridge and slid it off the plate, into the bin. He tied the plastic liner and brought it out to the wheelie bin. [2010, Roddy Doyle, “Blood”, in Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, editors, Stories: All-new Tales, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2011, →ISBN, page 7:]
Adjectives inflected like wheelie
serene,
severe,
secure,
sedate,
wheelie,
simple,
complete,
fulsome,
sprightlie,
discrete,
plosive,
bizarre,
brusque,
brittle,
wholesome,
sincere,
shystie,
loveable,
prophane,
terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
4. Proto-Germanic *hweulō
5. Old English hwēol
6. Middle English whel
7. English wheel
8. English -ie
9. English wheelie
10. From wheel + -ie.