n. the sound of a singer attempting a higher octave.
<I don’t know if I can get up that high. Eeeeee... Eeeeeeee... I can still do it, I haven’t lost my voice yet. —Sue Graham Mingus, Tonight At Noon: A Love Story.>
eeeeee-yeeee.
interj. the exultant scream of a Confederate infantryman.
<The sudden drumming of hooves brushed me off the dusty pike and petrified me into rigidity as a troop dressed in gray and dirty tan galloped by screaming “Eeeeee-yeeee” exultantly. —Ward Moore, “Bring the Jubilee,” The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century.>
EEEEeee.
interj. “shut up!” as in Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent.
eeeeeee.
interj. a “collective scream” of terror in response to “a peril beyond comprehension,” as in Once Upon a Winter’s Night by Dennis L. McKiernan.
interj. a cry of disinclination to get out of bed, ostensibly due to fear of sunlight.
<Gavin screamed. “EEEEEEE! Daylight!” —Alice Borchardt, The Silver Wolf.>
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