Ee.

n.  a stream in the Solomon Islands.

ee.

n.  eye (Scottish).


n.  one of the magic words comprising the name of Skeezer Queen Coo-ee-oh, in the novel Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

<“Well, Coo-ee-oh used just three magic words, one to make the bridge work, and one to make the submarines go out of their holes, and one to raise and lower the island.  Three words.  And Coo-ee-oh’s name is made up of just three words.  One is ‘Coo,’ and one is ‘ee,’ and one is ‘oh.’ ...  If ‘Coo’ sends out the boats, it is probable that ‘ee’ works the bridge,” suggested Ozma.  —L. Frank Baum, Glinda of Oz

n.  the letter e.

<Has anybody here seen Kelly?  Key ee double ell wy.  —James Joyce, Ulysses.>

ee ee ee.

n.  the jabbing sound of the hornbell.

<A six-foot skinny Negro woman was rolling her bones at the man’s hornbell, and he just jabbed it at her, “Ee! ee! ee!”  —Jack Kerouac, On the Road.>

ee-ee-ee.

n.  the short, high call of the Northern Flicker woodpecker, as described in A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies by Herbert Raffaele.

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