aieee.

interj.  a scream meant to frighten.

<Morning Star screamed, “Aieee!”  The deer didn’t pause to look, merely bolted into the trees and vanished, smoke on the wind.  —Bob Arter, “Apache Shorts,” Gator Springs Gazette.>

interj.  a scream of hysterics, as in “Another Genie’s Life” by Eddie Glover.


interj.  a shout of pain and anguish.

<Which god’s bloodlust made this happen? / Mothers screaming / Young girls screaming / Families mourning / Aieee!  Yelling! / Aieee!  Shouting! / As house after house / Joined the shrill chorus, / And handed on the torch of pain.  —Euripides, Phoenician Women, translated by Andrew Wilson.>

interj.  a warning of attack, as in karate.

<Aieee!  Slam!  Smash!  —Carol M. Shifflett, “‘Real’ Aikido.”>

interj.  an expression of yearning.

<When the geese returned they would continue their journey.  My heart leaped when I heard this.  They might travel to the land of the Shoshoni!  Aieee!  If only I could journey with them.  —Peter Roop, Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains.>

interj.  boo!

<”Aieee!” said the first ghost, jumping out from behind a tree.  —Gloria Dominic, Brave Bear and the Ghosts: A Sioux Legend.>

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