tee-heeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 tehee, te he, ti he, alteration of hehe, from 古期英語 he he (“hee hee”).

間投詞

tee hee

1. The sound of a giggle.
   • 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181:

     She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.

   • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 97:

     Tee hee! Isn't that naughty?

動詞

tee hee (third-person singular simple present tee hees, present participle tee heeing, simple past and past participle tee heed or tee hee'd)

1. To utter tee hee; to make a high-pitched laugh; to titter.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 70:

     That was more than could be said for those two bastards tee-heeing away over there by the bookshelves.

参考

• haha
• haw haw
• heh
• hehe
• ho ho ho
• tee hee hee