eeeeee.

interj.  giddyup (a command for a horse to move).

<Then El Mehdi shouted, “Eeeeee!” to his horses, and the carriage began to creak as it started down the road.  —Paul Bowles, “The Successor,” The Stories of Paul Bowles.>

interj.  the cry of a torture victim, as in a Japanese comic book.

<“I’m teaching myself Japanese,” Wags said.  He showed Nat what he was reading: a comic book.  Two Japanese men were about to torture a Japanese woman.  The only word on the page was Eeeeee!  —Peter Abrahams, Crying Wolf.>

interj.  the Italian expression for “whee!” as discussed in Hear! Here! by Michele Slung.


interj.  the primal wail of a banshee.

<You’d wailed like you thought the Banshee might wail and Rachel had crawled under your parents’ bed, set herself perfectly in the centre so that reaching under from either side you missed her entirely.  EEEEEE you screamed, jumping up and down on the mattress until she skittered out and made for the living room where your brother was watching the Stanley Cup playoffs.  EEEEEE.  —Aislinn Hunter, What’s Left of Us.>

n.  a gleeful chuckle.

<“Eeeeee, perhaps you’d better not,” Haru, a short, wizened fisherman, chortled.  —James Clavell, Shogun.>

n.  a man’s romantic wooing, “like some dirty kind of animal,” as described in Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck; see also ooooo.

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