eeeee.

interj.  a shriek of pain.

<Eeeee!  The pain.  I cannot help it!  The pain.  My limbs are in agony!  —Dave Freer, Rats, Bats, & Vats.>

interj.  a solemn exclamation; oh.

<Eeeee, I’m a dead man.  —L. A. Marzulli, The Unholy Deception.>

interj.  ah, as in “eeeee God” (synonymous with “egad”); see also eeee.

<I thought, “Eeeee, God!”  But that’s what they was lookin’ for.  They wanted to make the biggest hillbilly in Bakersfield into somethin’ he wasn’t!  —Richard Kienzle, Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz.>

interj.  oh; the sound of a belated realization.

<Eeeee, I didn’t recognize them.  —Michael Herzfeld, The Poetics of Manhood.>

n.  a last word.

<[Mallie’s] got her list with everyone’s answers on it, everyone who might have heard it [Starr’s last word].  Even Kathy from Jewell’s with all the makeup.  I saw Kathy’s answer in there, written down in Mallie’s faithful script: Eeeee.  —Alison McGhee, Rainlight.>

n.  a terrible wail of grief, as over a dead child.

<Three whole bright-blustery days in March she screamed, till, finely sifted, her plaint reduced itself to eeeee.  —Gunter Grass, The Flounder.>

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