Wheeze vs Wheezer - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between wheeze and wheezer

is that wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration while wheezer is one who wheezes.

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

(en noun)

A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

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

(British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan

* 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:

The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.

(slang) Something very humorous or laughable.

The new comedy is a wheeze .

You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

* See also

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

* 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)

If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.