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nouninterjectionnounnouninterjectionnounattested in dialogue

  • //iː//
  • /[iː˧˦˧]/
  • /[iː˦˦˧]/
  • /[iːː˨˦˧]/

eh

noun

  1. 1

    archaicAn eye.

    Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with his ee.

    […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]

interjection

  1. 1

    eh

    Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]

    '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...

noun

  1. 1

    Enantiomeric excess.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of eAlternative form of e: the name of the Latin script letter E/e.

    The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

    I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

    ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

interjection

  1. 1

    Ew, yuck; expression of disgust.

    Eee, so commercial some might say.

Etymology

From Cantonese 噫 (ji², interjection).

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of einformalAlternative form of e (“The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).

Forms

plural
een, ees
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).