eeeeee.

interj.  a scream as someone falls.

<“Eeeeee!” Chena screamed, putting a good six E’s into it.  She dropped out from under him like a rock.  —Piers Anthony, Yon Ill Wind: A Xanth Novel.>

interj.  a scream to shoo away spiders and other “filthy crawly things,” as in The Angel’s Command: A Tale From the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques.


interj.  a shriek of gratitude, disbelief, and happiness.

<“Eeeeee!” shrieked Bindi into the microphone. ... “This is such an honor!  I can’t believe it!  I’m so happy!  Thank you all!”  —Susan G. Sizemore, Heaven and Hell.>

interj.  a shriek of surprise, as when someone unexpectedly bursts into the room; see also eee.

<”Can’t you stop this damned thing, Mr. Johnson?  I mean it’s only a formality.  They simply... Eeeeee!”  With a crash and a splintering of rotten wood, we burst through the barricade.  —Patrick Dennis, Around the World With Auntie Mame.>

interj.  a wail of anguish, as in A Cry of Stone by Michael O’Brien.


interj.  an energetic confirmation; “and how!”

<“People really used to make people cleanse broken taboos?”  Rasoa responded, “Eeeeee!  Once when a man came from Niarovana, he tried to drag his canoe across town rather than rowing around.  Taboo!  We made him get a bull and cleanse the transgression, but now no one does that anymore.”  —Jennifer Cole, Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar.>

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