tee hee

interjection

The sound of a giggle.

Meanings

interjection

alternative teehee · alternative tee-hee

  1. The sound of a giggle.

    Tee hee! Isn't that naughty?

    1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 97
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    She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.

    1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181
  2. broadly4chan slang and incel slangThe sound of a stereotypically feminine giggle, used to mock women or emphasize the womanhood of a character in an imagined scenario.

    >gets a rot pocket >SEE CHUDS IM A WOMYN NOW TEEHEE

    2021 October 5, anonymous author, 4chan, /qa/
verbtee hee (third-person singular simple present tee hees, present participle tee heeing, simple past and past participle tee heed or tee hee'd)

present singular third person tee hees · participle present tee heeing · participle past tee heed · past tee heed · participle past tee hee'd · past tee hee'd · alternative teehee · alternative tee-hee

  1. To utter tee hee; to make a high-pitched laugh; to titter.

    That was more than could be said for those two bastards tee-heeing away over there by the bookshelves.

    1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 70

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Old Englishhe he“hee hee”
  2. Middle Englishtehee
  3. Englishtee hee

From Middle English tehee, te he, ti he, alteration of hehe, from Old English he he (“hee hee”).

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