Hee Hawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Onomatopoeic coinage.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/ (♪: ˉˍ)

名詞

hee-haw (countable and uncountable, plural hee-haws)

1. (countable) The cry of an ass or donkey.

   Synonym: bray

2. (uncountable, Scotland, colloquial) Nothing.
   • 2010 April 30, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record:

     Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.

   • 2010 September 27, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun:

     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.

間投詞

hee-haw

1. The cry of an ass or donkey.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) Of an ass or donkey, to make its typical vocalisation.
   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 84:

     An old Jack donkey came galloping and hee-hawing in great excitement at the sight of the horses and mules.

2. (intransitive) To mimic the cry of an ass or donkey; to make a noise resembling a donkey's vocalisations.
   • 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.