eee-ooo eee-ooo.

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

eee-ooo eee-ooo eee-ooo.

n.  a child’s musical babble.

<“Eee-ooo, eee-ooo, eee-ooo,” Robertito bellowed as he scooted across the room, his right hand flapping energetically beside his head. … Francisca chased merrily after her son, finally duplicating his pace and maintaining a parallel movement, “Eee-ooo, eee-ooo, eee-ooo,” she sang, submerging her echo into a musical context.  He increased his speed.  Francisca escalated her own steps.  Against the harmony of cooing and strange babble, they passed before my eyes like dancers inaugurating a new ballet.  —Barry Neil Kaufman, A Miracle to Believe In.>

eee-ooo-eee.

n.  the singing of a genie, as described in Flight of the Genie by Tony Abbott.

eee-ooo-ii.

n.  the outburst of the peacock, which Flannery O’Connor describes as sounding “like a cheer for an invisible parade” (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose).

<[The peacock] appears to receive through his feet some shock from the center of the earth, which travels upward through him and is released: Eee-oo-ii!  Eee-ooo-ii!  —Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.>

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