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.

ee-uuu.

interj.  a sound of disgust.

<“Looked like snot to me.”  “Ee-uuu.”  Will giggled.  “It did to me, too, but you said I wasn’t allowed to say gross stuff when we’re eating.”  —Judi McCoy, Wanted: One Perfect Man.>

eeaa.

n.  a cry of sheer terror, as when one is chased by the living dead in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.

eee.

interj.  a cry of shock.

<Tiphany carried Tooter over to Vanessa and pressed his cold, wet body against the back of her neck.  “Eee!” Vanessa screamed, nearly dropping her camera.  —Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl #6: You’re the One That I Want.>

interj.  a joyful exclamation of the Toraja people of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia.

<“Eee, grandchild,” she exclaimed, embracing me almost jubilantly and offering up her share of meat.  —Toby Alice Volkman, Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands.>

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