beep vs wheeze

beep

verb
  • To sound (something that makes a beep). 

  • To contact (someone via) a pager device. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To produce a beep. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts 

noun
  • A message sent to a pager device. 

  • A short, electronically produced tone. 

  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 

wheeze

verb
  • To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing. 

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. 

  • To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. 

noun
  • An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone. 

  • Something very humorous or laughable. 

  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. 

  • An ulterior scheme or plan. 

  • A sound that resembles a human wheezing. 

How often have the words beep and wheeze occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )