eeee-aaaay.

interj.  a lament; a sorrowful cry.

<EEEE-AAAAY! EEEE-AAAAY!  Oh Weep for Mara whose people are no more.  —David Eddings, The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon.>

eeee-ee.

interj.  a snarl of rage.

< Then she sucked in her breath through her teeth at the sight of von Rossbach.  “Eeee-ee,” she said.  —S. M. Stirling, T2: Rising Storm.>

eeee-eee-eeee.

n.  the sound of chalk screeching on a blackboard or another writing implement scraping across a surface.

<Ellen made the slightest eeee-eee-eeee noise as the dry lipstick screeched down the mirror.  —Kristen Kemp, I Will Survive.>

eeee-eeee-eeee-EEEE-eeee-eeee.

n.  the discordant trill of a crude falsetto, as during vocal exercises.

<She, too, glanced carelessly over her shoulder, smiling and Eeee-eeee-eeee-EEEE-eeee-eeee-ing without interruption.  —Carole Nelson Douglas, Another Scandal in Bohemia: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.>

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