hee haw

English

Noun

hee haw (plural hee haws)

1. Alternative spelling of hee-haw
2. (countable) A braying laugh.
   • 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 64:

     He had sharp brown eyes that he made look merry when it suited him, and a subborn chin he hid behind a hearty, good ol' boy hee haw that disarmed those who didn't know him well, but put the few who did on full alert.

   • 2008, Afton Greenwood, Grave Notes on Aurelia, →ISBN, page 6:

     He answered, blooming out with a clownish grin that usually brought big hee-haws, “Sixteen. Short for my age.”

   • 2009, Wave Joann Stevens, Mystery, Adventure & Nonsense: True Stories of Make-Believe, →ISBN:

     The little gurgling sounds became great big hee haws of hysteria.

Interjection

hee haw

1. Alternative spelling of hee-haw

Verb

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

1. Alternative spelling of hee-haw
   • 2011, Joy Elaine McMillan, Storms Never Last: Memoirs of a Playboy Bunny, →ISBN, page 53:

     In fact, I was actually hee hawing!

   • 2013, Charles Jason Byrley, Rendering Silence, →ISBN, page 33:

     Burro hee hawed and hee hawed until she was red in the face.