eeee.

v.  to shake or vibrate crazily, as in the physical comedy of The Three Stooges.

<To me it looked like Al’s jeans went eeee, like the Stooges—his pants legs are vibrating, his legs are shaking so hard.  —Connie Fletcher, What Cops Know.>

Eeee e E E.

n.  a herder’s call.

<First there appeared a lone rider over the hill and then the others came.  (As if calling to herders) Eeee e E E!  —Dennis Tedlock, The Dialogic Emergence of Culture.>

eeee eeee.

n.  the “high, thin whistle call” of the Cedar Waxwing bird, as described in Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior, Volume 1, by Donald Stokes.

eeee eeee eeee.

n.  the bad sound of someone blowing a recorder poorly; see also eee-eee-eee.

<I blow the recorder.  I make a sound.  EEEE! EEEE! EEEE!  A bad sound comes, like angry birds.  —Karen Hesse, The Music of Dolphins.>

eeee yaaa.

interj.  a Tarzan-like cry of masculine power.

<”Eeee yaaa!”  Troy fell down on one of the easy chairs and beat his chest.  —Gentry Lee, Cradle.>

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