squee
/skwiː
/informal
exclamation
Used to express great delight or excitement: Got a photo with him and he signed my book. Squee!...
- He's showing up next week; squee!
- So now we've got that out of the way: Squee!
- I was excited as anything to see Dragon's comment above - squee!
verb (squees, squeeing, squeed) [no object]
Squeal in delight or excitement: I squeed like a 14-year-old fangirl when I found out...
- Not an easy feat but one rewarded with much happy squeeing!
- The sister just ran into my room, clapped me on the face, and ran out again squeeing.
- Much to my own surprise I actually squeed a little and then got all excited.
noun
A cry of delight or excitement: if they hadn’t been in a meeting she would have let out a squee of delight...
- There we were waiting for the 45-minute gig - insert squee here - when they broke the bad news to us: Barrowman was going to do the questioning.
- The Making of Mama Mia is a three-part featurette including an interview with head Abba lyricist Bjorn Ulvaeus (cue Mindy squee).
- I had a giant squee reaction to both of my countries of citizenship getting something right in the same week.
Origin
1990s: probably representing a pronunciation of a shortening of squeal.