ooo-eee.

interj.  an expression of strong feeling; see also ooo, oooo.

<Ooo-eee, I’m here to tell you, boy, it was one sorry hereafter.  —Reginald McKnight, African American Wisdom.>

interj.  an expression of wide-eyed wonder.

<And now look at us?  Ooo-eee!  Taking rocket ships to work.  —William Jack Sibley, Any Kind of Luck.>

n.  a pig’s squeal.

<Ooo-eee!  Ooo-eee! cried the pigs.  —George Ella Lyon, Come a Tide.>

n.  a wooing call.

<Ooo-eee, ooo-eee my baby.  —Annie McLoone, “Ooo-Eee.”>

ooo-eee-ooo.

n.  an eerie, cosmic melody.

<“To Match the Sun” is arguably the best song on the [Jane’s Addiction] album [Strays], starting out with an eerie science fiction “ooo-eee-ooo” and transitioning into a sort of uplifting hard rock power ballad.  —Nicole Saidi, “Jane’s Addiction Strays From Path to Greatness.”>

ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo.

n.  the spooky feeling of déjà vu.

<I suppose the kind of ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo factor that we get when we encounter the old deja vu is there in me.  —Kenneth Branagh, interviewed by Tom Hibbert, “What Makes Kenny Run,” Empire Magazine.>

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