aiee

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

aiee

  1. A shout of pain or alarm.
    • 2010, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (page 239)
      He caught her as she went past and pulled her around. She threw up her hands and closed her good eye. Aiee, she cried. Aiee.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish áith f (“drying-kiln (for grain)”), from the same root as *h₂eh₁ter- (“fire”) (compare Latin āter).

Noun

aiee f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. kiln

Derived terms

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