eee.

interj.  a shriek of glee.

<”Eee!” Nieh said, a high-pitched sound of glee.  —Harry Turtledove, Colonization: Aftershocks.>

interj.  a shriek of surprise; see also eeeeee.

<Eee, Mr. Herriot, I didn’t expect to see you.  I thought you were in the army.  —James Herriot, All Creatures Wise and Wonderful.>

interj.  a sigh.

<Eee, this guy.  —Hank Stuever, Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere.>

interj.  oh; see also eeee, eeeee.

<”Eee, you cheeky monkey” was what my mother said to me all the time when I was a kid.  —Mike Etherington, The Very Best of the British.>

n.  a shriek like electronic feedback, powerful enough to cut through the traffic noise on Broadway: “A strange, nasty sound, high-pitched, insistent” (David Denby, Great Books).


n.  radiowaves from a spiral galaxy, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.


n.  the distant echo of a syllable being called out.

<Presently the voice moved farther away and we could hear only the plaintive echoing.  “Eee?” “Eee?” of the repeated second syllable of each of our names, like a distant calling bird.  —Sue Miller, The Distinguished Guest.>

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