squee
English
Etymology
Imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skwiː/, [skwiː]
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -iː
- Homophone: skweee
Verb
squee (third-person singular simple present squees, present participle squeeing, simple past and past participle squeed)
- (informal) To squeal with excitement or delight.
- 2011, "Spartakus", Anti-abortion terrorism nipped in the bud in Madison, WI (on newsgroup talk.abortion)
- Meanwhile on Usenet, a couple of anti-choicers are racing to out-stupid each other, squeeing like school children over something someone said.
- 2012, Male Cat Stays By Female Cat's Side In Sickness And Health, Huffington Post
- On Tuesday, Reddit user lern41 got the Reddit community squeeing when he posted a few photos of his pet cats, Artemis and Apollo.
- 2011, "Spartakus", Anti-abortion terrorism nipped in the bud in Madison, WI (on newsgroup talk.abortion)
Interjection
squee
- (informal) A squeal of excitement or delight.
- 2001, "Susan", I got a hamster! Squee! (on Internet newsgroup alt.fan.digimon)
- 2013, Peter Nowak, "There will be buttons: And other truths about the next-gen Xbox", The Globe and Mail, 17 May 2013:
- The new console will certainly have more powerful graphics, processor, hard drive and all those specs that really only nerdy writers for technology websites care about: “Ermahgerd, moar polygons! More frame rate! Squee!”
Usage notes
- Mostly used on the Internet and especially associated with fangirls.
Noun
squee (plural squees)
- (informal) A cry of squee.
- 2008, Dale North, JapanaTen: The top ten things anime cons could do without:
- It's just that the young female group squees seem to come at the most inopportune time. Sure enough, just about every time I'm on the phone — squee. Talking to someone important? Squee.
- 2013 June 3, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jun 3, 2013:
- "Oughta be more careful, El. Most people aren't accustomed to fanboyish squees." "Well, they aren't going to get used to it without exposure." "Fair 'nough."
- 2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4371: Held In Reserve:
- "Forgive me. I am imagining the two of you as a couple and it is making me very happy. This must be the 'squee' emotion I have heard so much about." "That is the most dignified squee I've ever seen."
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Anagrams
- -esque, eques