- the sound that a donkey makes; bray
- a loud, often silly laugh like a bray
Origin of heehaw
echoic- to bray
- to laugh in a loud, often silly way; guffaw
heehaw
hee·hawWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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heehaw
noun
- The braying sound made by a donkey.
- Informal A noisy laugh; a guffaw.
intransitive verb
hee·hawed, hee·haw·ing, hee·haws- To bray.
- Informal To guffaw.
Origin of heehaw
ImitativeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Interjection
- Alternative spelling of hee-haw.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present heehaws, present participle heehawing, simple past and past participle heehawed)
- Alternative spelling of hee-haw.
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