Meanings
hee1
- onomatopoeicAn expression of laughter.
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"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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251 - 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 14Listen! 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
- 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
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Origin
Hee · proper noun
- DutchHee
- EnglishHee
Borrowed from Dutch Hee.
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Full word history & related roots →Hee · proper noun
- cpx許
- EnglishHee
Borrowed from Puxian Min 許 /许 (hy³).
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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