heehaw
Example Sentences
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The result, Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times, is a film that takes the form of “a mock, mocking documentary, one that disjointedly swings between heehaw comedy and wincing agony.”
From New York Times • May 31, 2021
They wear the traditional tuxedo colors, decorated with black bands, and emit a sound that resembles a donkey’s heehaw — hence their nickname, jackass.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2016
From Russia, his second treatment of a Fleming fiction, is an intentional heehaw at whodunits, an uproarious parody that may become a classic of caricature.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw."
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose thou art making an ass of thyself, young Harry Warrington, of Virginia! are there not people in England who heehaw too?
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
