eeeeeee eeeee.

n.  the squealing sound of a barnyard sow, as in Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA by Jayson Williams.

eeeeeee eeeeeee eeeeeee.

interj.  a scream of grief, as from a mother mourning a dead baby.

<“Don’t seem like it’s breathing no more,” he explained.  EEEEEEE.  EEEEEEE.  EEEEEEE, the mother screamed.  —Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic.>

eeeeeee-yiee.

interj.  an answering call of the elusive and violent Yanomami Indians who dwell in the rain forest between Orinoco and the Amazon, as described in In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O’Hanlon.

<“Eeeeeee-yiee!” came an answering cry from outside the shabono.  — Redmond O’Hanlon, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon.>

eeeeeeee.

n.  a piercing cry.

<A cry pierced the hall—Eeeeeeee! a glass door slammed, the clatter of heels and then—Who was that!  —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own.>

eeeeeeee eeeeeeeee.

n.  the sound of a rocket-powered elevator ascending, as in the comic book “Hyperco” by Aaron K.

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