hee-haw

plural hee-haws · alternative heehaw · alternative hee haw

1. countableThe cry of an ass or donkey.

   Synonyms: bray

2. ScotlandcolloquialuncountableNothing.

   Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.

   2010 April 30, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record

   1 more example

   People like Dick Advocaat, who knew hee-haw about Scottish football's history, set about whittling away little bits of our tradition on the grounds... well, let's be honest, that they were an inconvenience.

   2010 September 27, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun

alternative heehaw · alternative hee haw

1. The cry of an ass or donkey.

present singular third person hee-haws · participle present hee-hawing · participle past hee-hawed · past hee-hawed · alternative heehaw · alternative hee haw

1. intransitiveOf an ass or donkey, to make its typical vocalisation.

   An old Jack donkey came galloping and hee-hawing in great excitement at the sight of the horses and mules.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 84

2. intransitiveTo mimic the cry of an ass or donkey; to make a noise resembling a donkey's vocalisations.

   The ladies were not much the wiser, though, I confess, they were not far removed from the door. The great men inside talked indistinctly and technically, and once Doctor Dillon was so unfeeling as to crack a joke—they could not distinctly hear what—and hee-haw brutally over it.

   1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard