eee-eee.

n.  the shriek of a monkey, as described in Tigers at Twilight by Mary Pope Osborne.

eee-eee-eee.

n.  the flight call of the Cut-Throat Finch, as described in Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair.


n.  the sound of someone manically blowing a wooden recorder, as described in Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism by Paul Collins; see also eeee eeee eeee.

eee-EEEE-eee-ooo.

n.  the eerie, supersonic whine of sonar.

<For the first time, Dan heard the keel sonar.  It came right up through the steel fabric of the hull, an eerie high note, like whale songs he’d heard on a National Geographic special.  It went from tone to tone, eee-EEEE-eee-ooo, trailing off in a supersonic whine that sent a shiver up his back.  He imagined it burrowing down from the storm-lashed surface, twisted by currents and inversions, reverberating down, down, down into two thousand fathoms of inky sea.  —David Poyer, The Circle.>

eee-ooo eee-ooo.

n.  the sound of a police siren, as in the manga “20th Century Boys Volume 7.”

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