aaa-eeeee.

n.  a scream of intense pain.

<”Aaa-eeeee!”  The scream was terrible.  “You’re killing me!  You’re pulling me apart!”  —James Jones, The Thin Red Line.>

aaa-ooooo.

n.  the signature howl of radio DJ Wolfman Jack.

<I wantcha ta reach over the radio, darlin’, right now, and grab my knobs.  Aaa-ooooo!  —Wolfman Jack, Have Mercy, qtd. by Ben Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio.>

aaaa.

interj.  a cry of disbelief.

<“Aaaa!  You’re taller than me!  My granddaughter is taller than me!”  She looks up at me, her forehead grazing my chin.  —Laura Moriarty, The Center of Everything: A Novel.>

interj.  a cry of panic.

<”Aaaa!” BeeBee shrieked.  “My arms are gone.”  —Gail Carson Levine, The Wish.>

interj.  a dying cry when it is “too late for words, whether sane or no,” as when a madman is buried beneath “a landslide he had unwittingly begun” (Bill Everett, Amazing Adventures #8).


interj.  a mortal cry, as when one is impaled by an arrow in the comic book Savage Sword of Conan #18 by John Buscema.

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