hee-haw

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English

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Etymology

Onomatopoeic coinage.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/ (♪: ˉˍ)
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Noun

hee-haw (countable and uncountable, plural hee-haws)

  1. (countable) The cry of an ass or donkey.
  2. (uncountable, Scotland, slang) Nothing.
    • 2010 April 30, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record:
      Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.
    • 2010 September 27, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun:
      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.

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Interjection

hee-haw

  1. The cry of an ass or donkey.

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Verb

hee-haw (third-person singular simple present hee-haws, present participle hee-hawing, simple past and past participle hee-hawed)

  1. (intransitive) To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      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.

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