aiee

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. kiln

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