aieee.

interj.  a call for help; see also aiieee.

<But the police stopped because they could hear my frozen feet screaming.  Aieee!  Help me!  They could hear this.  “You hear screaming?”  They looked over and saw this snow girl shaking like a washing machine gone berserk.  And my feet were screaming.  Aieee!.  —Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens.>

interj.  a cry of feigned fear.

<“Aieee!” he cried in mock terror and tried to run.  —Bernard Doove and Boyce Garald Kline Jr., “The Admiral and the Chakat 5.”>

interj.  a ghastly, unrestrained howling.

<Then suddenly the Sabbath decorum was shattered.  A wailing arose in a corner of the room.  “Aieee!  Get away from me!”  It was a ghastly howling, altogether unrestrained.  —Walter Wangerin Jr., The Book of God.>

interj.  a joyous cry.

<[S]he reached to cup the head of the infant so that she might guide its passage into the world.  “Aieee, yes!  It is very good!” she exclaimed again as the baby surged out of the mother on a hot tide of blood and fluid.  —William Sarabande, The Sacred Stones: A Novel of the First Americans.>

interj.  a rebel yell.

<Loud rebel yells pierced the air as Woody and Sonny urged them on, celebrating each swallow with a high-pitched “Aieee! Aieee! Aieee!”  —Carl Franz, The People’s Guide to Mexico.>

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