tee-hee
Americaninterjection
noun
verb (used without object)
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tee-hees,
present (3rd person singular)
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tee-heed,
past participle, past
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tee-heeing
present participle
interjection
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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tee-heesimple
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tee-heessimple
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have tee-heedperfect
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has tee-heedperfect
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am tee-heeingprogressive
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are tee-heeingprogressive
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is tee-heeingprogressive
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have been tee-heeingperfect progressive
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has been tee-heeingperfect progressive
Past
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tee-heedsimple
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had tee-heedperfect
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was tee-heeingprogressive
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were tee-heeingprogressive
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had been tee-heeingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of tee-hee
First recorded in 1350–1400; imitative
Example Sentences
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See Examples For:
Although it’s arriving in theaters a few days late for Lunar New Year, “Moonfall,” Roland Emmerich’s latest tee-hee disaster flick, feels curiously well timed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
We gawkers might tee-hee at the trash talk and eat up every morsel of these social media meltdowns, but the real stars of the family probably wish their family members would stay on the sidelines.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
Slate: The way you’re talking about all this reminds me of the way a medical doctor deals with the human body—no tittering, no tee-hee.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2013
“We tee-hee about those girls behind their backs,” Ms. Leeds Leventhal said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2013
Okay, maybe we were doing it a little bit on purpose, tee-hee.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
Perez is lively, with a chuckle that’s somewhere between the jovial trill of SpongeBob and the tee-hees of Skeletor.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
By this time tee-hees from the children and chuckles from some of the older members interfered with Mr. Badger's fervent but jerky discourse.
From Keziah Coffin by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Raynard patted him on the back and everybody else tee-heed for a hot second.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
"Hal hasn't tee-heed for twenty-four hours in my hearing," Mr. Perry said reprovingly.
From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by J. W. Duffield
He passed his time in bein' tee'd, tee-heed, or teeterin'.
From Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips
In spite of my supplications, they drew no nearer in, and what frightened me most of all, the new man tee-heed with laughter as he talked and looked at me.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
The splurging twain rallied him and drew him out in talk, passed him their flasks at the Brownie's Brae, had him tee-heeing at their nonsense.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Jane, however, with characteristic lack of compassion, hopped about, tee-heeing loudly—and straightening out any number of wrinkles.
From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates
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