ee

Noun (1)

ee (plural een)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) An eye.
   • Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with his ee.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"
   • […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering

Interjection (1)

1. (Northern England) eh
   • Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire
   • 'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...2008, Mavis Crawley, The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life

Noun (2)

ee (plural ees)

1. Enantiomeric excess.

Interjection (2)

1. (Singapore) Ew, yuck; expression of disgust.
   • Eee, so commercial some might say.2000 December 29, Samuel Lee, The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L8

Proper noun (1) capitalized: EE

EE

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Estuary English.
   • A new study from the University of Essex, which analysed the speech patterns of 200 participants. About 26% spoke EE, half spoke SSBE and the rest spoke MLE. […] Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas...2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024
2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Evangelism Explosion.
3. (abbreviation, initialism, literary) Initialism of Eudemian Ethics.
4. (UK, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of English Electric.

Noun (3) capitalized: EE

EE (countable and uncountable, plural EEs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of electrical engineering.
2. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of electrical engineer.
3. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of expressed emotion.
   • People with other mental disorders, even common mental disorders like depression, may still experience severe high EE conditions. The interactions between people with different mental disorders and their caregivers, and the precise mechanisms of high EE could be further explored.2022 July 21, Siu-Man Ng, Siyu Gao, Amenda Man Wang, Christine Cheuk, Melody Hiu-ying Fung, “Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During...
4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Easter egg.
   • POV: It's 2015 and you discover the creepiest EE.
5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of execution environment

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ee

Ee (countable and uncountable, plural Ees)

1. A surname.