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tee-hee, int. and n.|ˈtiːˈhiː|
Forms: 4–8 ti-, 4–9 te-, 6–7 ty-, 6– tee-, 7 teh-, tih-, tigh-, 9 tie-; 4– -he, -hee, 6 -heegh, -hei, -hy, 7 -hi, 7–9 -hie: as one word, or as two, or hyphened.
A. int. A representation of the sound of a light laugh, usually derisive. In quots. usually in female use. Cf. he int.2
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 554 Tehee [v.rr. Te hee; Cambr. Te he; Corpus Tehe; Petw. Ti he], quod she, and clapte the wyndow to. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 22 ‘Tehe!’ quod scho, and gaif ane gaufe. c1550Peblis to the Play xxi, Than all the wenschis Te he thai playit. 1588N. Yonge Mus. Transalpina xli. F j b, When I lament my case thou cryest..ty hy, and no no no. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes To Rdr., Monsters where be yee? I'm Hercules, club too, Ti-hee, wi-hee. 1773Mason Heroic Ep. to Sir W. Chambers 134 And all the Maids of Honour cry Te! He! 1944A. Huxley Let. 24 Feb. (1969) 500 Tee hee, tee hee, oh sweet delight!
B. n. A laugh of this kind; a titter, a giggle.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 273 The Tutt of Gentlemen, the Tee-heegh of Gentlewomen. 1600E. Blount Hosp. Incur. Fooles 116 As manie tigh⁓hees as euer came out of god Liber or Bacchus his mouth. 1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 58 (1756) II. 36 Tehees and Titters in the Women..totally destroy their Beauty. a1754Fielding Charac. Men Wks. 1784 IX. 411 The various laughs, titters, tehes, &c. of the fair sex. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. v, Our poor young Prince gets his Opera plaudits changed into mocking tehees. 1858― Fredk. Gt. vi. vi. (1872) II. 199 Astonishment, flebile ludibrium, tragical tehee from gods and men, will come of the Duel!
C. attrib. or as adj. tee-hee farm (nonce), a mental hospital; cf. funny farm s.v. funny a. 4.
1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 172 Everybody knows about Rose, that they've sent her sister Rose back from the tee-hee farm and Esther has to take her in. 1971Publishers' Weekly 1 Nov. 17/2 This accounts for Newsweek's rather snide coverage and the tee-hee reports in the press.
Hence teeˈhee v., intr. to utter tehee in laughing; to laugh affectedly or derisively; to titter, giggle; also as tee and hee (nonce). Hence teeˈheeing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1300Proverb. Verses in Rel. Ant. II. 14 Liþer lok and tuinkling Tihing and tikeling. 1580Harvey Lett. betw. Spenser & H. Wks. (Grosart) I. 61 The Gentlewoomen..tyhying betweene them selues. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iii, And the wenches they doe so geere, and ti-he at him. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 96 They fell to teighing, and now they laugh you to skorne. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 158 My money..began to laugh and tighie in my purse. 1721D'Urfey Ariadne ii. i, Oh! how she would Teehee, and simper, and sneer. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped xiv, What frightened me most of all, the new man tee-hee'd with laughter as he..looked at me. 1904J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri v. 81 ‘That's it, laff!’ almost sobbed Captain Jerry. ‘Set there and tee-hee like a Bedlamite.’ 1928V. Woolf Orlando iv. 163 He teed and heed intolerably. 1935‘G. Orwell’ in New English Weekly 14 Nov. 96/1 Life is full of misery when you believe that the grave really finishes you... Hence the tee-heeing brightness of Punch, hence Barrie and his bluebells, hence H. G. Wells and his Utopiæ infested by nude school-marms. |