hee

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interjection

An expression of laughter.

Less commonScrabble 6

Meanings

hee1

interjection
  1. onomatopoeicAn expression of laughter.
    1 more example

    "Good evening, Kristen," said I; "what are you telling that creates such fun?" "Hee, hee, hee!" screamed the youngsters, with great glee depicted in their faces; "Kristen has told us about the smith and the devil, and then about the lad who got him into the nut, and now he says he's going to tell us about Peter Sannum, whose horse the fairies stopped on the Asmyr hill."

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251
  2. rareSaid accompanying a vigorous attack.

    Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!

    1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)
    2 more examples

    Hyde: (Leaps from desk. LADY BUGG runs behind the sofa. HYDE follows.) Hee, hee, hee! LADY BUGG: Help! Murder! Police!

    1995, Tim Kelly, Dr. Jekyll.. Please Don't Hyde!, page 14

    Listen! Fire Thunder sprang from the back of the dying pony to the back of a passing buffalo! Hee-hee! He landed facing the tail! He grabbed that tail and twisted it and made his buffalo go wherever he wanted to go. Hee-hee!

    2003, Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, page 14

hee2

pronounhee (personal pronoun)
  1. obsoletepersonalpronounObsolete spelling of he (sometimes emphatic).

    He ended, and the Son gave signal high To the bright Minister that watchd, hee blew His Trumpet

    1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

Hee3

proper nounHee (plural Hees)

plural Hees

  1. A surname from Dutch

Hee4

proper nounHee (plural Hees)

plural Hees

  1. A surname from Puxian Min

Origin

Hee · proper noun

  1. DutchHee
  2. EnglishHee

Borrowed from Dutch Hee.

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Hee · proper noun

  1. cpx許
  2. EnglishHee

Borrowed from Puxian Min 許 /许 (hy³).

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Cite this entry
APA

hee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hee

MLA

“hee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hee.

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