eeeee-eee.

n.  a high, awful squeak: “A sound comes out of his mouth like a nail being crowbarred out of a plank of green pine; Eeeee-eee” (Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).

EEEEE-eeeee.

n.  the war cry of a cannibal tribe.

<Great cries of EEEEE-eeeee!! hit the air and ears as we ran into a fire-lit hut.  —Tobias Schneelbaum, Keep the River on Your Right.>

eeeee-ooooo-eeeee.

n.  an eerie melody, reminiscent of the spooky theme to the “Twilight Zone” television series.

<“Eeeee-ooooo-eeeee, we’re in Crestone,” he joked, his voice climbing and descending the scale in an eerie Twilight Zone tone, a reference to what many Coloradoans thought of this town of New Age and Eastern-religion devotees.  —William Celis, Battle Rock: The Struggle Over a One-Room School in America’s Vanishing West.>

eeeee-yo.

n.  a sound of physical exertion, as during self defense.

<If a big dog comes at you... then grab both of its front legs, pull them out sideways—eeeee-yo!—and snap its back.  —Nicola Barker, Behindlings: A Novel.>

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