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hee

hee interjection: an expression of laughter. Also the obsolete spelling of he.

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) An expression of laughter.
    • "Good evening, Kristen," said I; "what are you telling that creates such fun?" "Hee, hee, hee!" screamed the youngsters, with great glee depicted in their faces; "Kristen has told us about the smith and the devil, and then about the lad who got him into the nut, and now he says he's going to tell...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251
  2. (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
    • Hyde: (Leaps from desk. LADY BUGG runs behind the sofa. HYDE follows.) Hee, hee, hee! LADY BUGG: Help! Murder! Police!1995, Tim Kelly, Dr. Jekyll.. Please Don't Hyde!, page 14
    • Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Hee

Hee (plural Hees)

  1. A surname from Dutch

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hee

Hee (plural Hees)

  1. A surname from Puxian Min

Also used as

hee is also the obsolete spelling of he.

hee meaning in Gujarati

Forms of hee

pluralHees

Origin of hee

Borrowed from Dutch Hee.

Borrowed from Puxian Min 許 /许 (hy³).

Phrases with hee

Questions about hee

What does hee mean?
Hee means an expression of laughter.
What is hee in Gujarati?
Hee in Gujarati is હી. See Hee meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is hee?
Hee can be an interjection or a proper noun.

Words near hee in the dictionary

  1. hedylopsaceans
  2. hedyphane
  3. hedyphanes
  4. hedysarum
  5. hedysarums
  6. hee
  7. hee haw
  8. hee hawed
  9. hee hawing
  10. hee haws
  11. hee hee hee

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hee (page history and authors); Hee (page history and authors); hee (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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