eeeee.

n.  the sound of a far-off train.

<theres that train far away pianissimo eeeee  —James Joyce, Ulysses.>

n.  the sound of an instant camera regurgitating a photograph.

<Andy [Warhol] would come with his Polaroid and sit there at the table.  Everybody was carrying on and he’d say nothing, but periodically he goes brrr with the machine and then this long thing comes out eeeee.  I always thought it was just like sticking his tongue out at the company.  Puking on them in a way.  —Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography.>

n.  the thin sound of a cornet, communicating knowledge “before alphabetic, literate language,” as described by Toni Morrison in Song of Solomon.


n.  the thin, wavering call of the Great Thrush in flight, as described in Thrushes by Peter Clement.

eeeee ee e.

n.  the incoherent mutterings of a dental patient whose mouth has been coated with a tincture of opium.

<Matthew tried to say: where am I?  Instead he said, Eeeee ee e?  —Edwin Shrake, The Borderland: A Novel of Texas.>

eeeee uuuuu.

interj.  yuck, as in the variation of the “Pease Porridge” nursery rhyme told in All About Pockets: Storytime Activities for Early Childhood by Christine Petrell Kallevig.

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