hee-haw
See also: heehaw
English
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Etymology
Onomatopoeic coinage.
Pronunciation
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Noun
hee-haw (countable and uncountable, plural hee-haws)
- (countable) The cry of an ass or donkey.
- (uncountable, Scotland, slang) Nothing.
- 2010, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record, 30 Apr 2010:
- Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.
- 2010, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun, 27 Sep 2010:
- 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, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record, 30 Apr 2010:
Synonyms
Translations
cry
Interjection
- The cry of an ass or donkey.
Pronunciation
Translations
cry
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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)
- (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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