AIEEEE.

(also AIEEEEEEEEEEEE.)  n.  the orchestral wail of “the horror of the moment,” as upon a terrible realization.

<She reached the back of the church and saw the pile of bulletins.  She wondered if her name was printed inside.  She excitedly grabbed a handful and opened one up to take a peek.  AIEEEE.  A thousand violins shrieked chords of horror in the crisp air.  The cellos played a pedal-point of doom and a lonely bassoon tootled its mournful wail in the distance.  AIEEEEEEEEEEEE.  Louder and louder the noise grew, as the horror of the moment made itself painfully aware.  A paper cut.  An enormous, king-sized (3 kings-sized) paper cut right across her fingertip.  And not just any finger.  Her right index finger.  The most important organ-playing finger of them all.  —Green Tuna, “The Tale of the Bloody Keys,” GreenTuna.Blogspot.com.>

aieeee.

interj.  a cry of excitement, as in the story “Déjà Blue” by Shawn Raventhorn.


interj.  a cry of pain.

<The knight’s body convulsed.  “Aieeee!”  —Christopher Stasheff, The Oathbound Wizard.>

interj.  a cry of shock, as by feeling something ice-cold, in the story “Orange” by Joseph Palmer.

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