22 March 2006

heehaw

Through the ever-educational medium of "spell-check", I learned today that "heehaw" is much more than my grandparents' favorite 80s television show.

It is, in fact, a legitimate word:

hee·haw (n.)
  1. The braying sound made by a donkey.
  2. Informal. A noisy laugh; a guffaw.

hee·haw (intr.v.) hee·hawed, hee·haw·ing, hee·haws
  1. To bray.
  2. Informal. To guffaw.


How fun is THAT?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

and if you never saw any of Hee-Haw from its prime, back in the 70s, it's worth checking out. By the 80s it was getting a bit long in the tooth, so to speak.

Sa-LUTE!

Anonymous said...

this might be pushing the envelope but I can't resist.....a very funny girl I know uses the term "heehaw" to refer to a certain female body part. that's just too rich not to share.

The Doctor said...

Susannah, that is funny in far too many ways. I've heard a lot of euphemisms, including "who-ha", but that takes the cake. So to speak.

I liked the tv show enough that when I was 5, I told my parents that I wanted to learn to play that guitar where they do this (insert hand motions here), and not long after school started I was shocked to find out that playing the violin is really hard!

palomita said...

Come to think of it, I have a friend who also uses the term "heehaw" as an explicative, e.g. "What the heehaw was that all about?"

Anonymous said...

Dovie, I hope I'm not that friend, since I know I've used that word in that way. But now that I'm getting so used to referring to our house as the "hell hole", I'm becoming a lot more liberal in where else I'll use that word.

Susannah...hilarious!!!

palomita said...

No, it's not you Kristen...but actually I can't remember who it is! But somehow I know it's not you...