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The Collaborative International Dictionary
hee-haw

hee-haw \hee-haw\ n. a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

Syn: horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw.

hee-haw

hee-haw \hee-haw\ v. i. to bray in the manner of a donkey.

Syn: bray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hee-haw

also heehaw, first recorded 1815 (as Hiu Haw), probably imitative of sound of donkey's bray (compare French hinham). As "a loud laugh" from 1843.

Wiktionary
hee-haw

interj. The cry of an ass or donkey. n. 1 The cry of an ass or donkey. 2 (context Scotland slang English) nothing. vb. (context intransitive English) To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.

WordNet
hee-haw
  1. n. a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing [syn: horselaugh, ha-ha, haw-haw]

  2. v. braying characteristic of donkeys [syn: bray]

Usage examples of "hee-haw".

They hee-hawed and laughed, sputtered and chattered and babbled--a dozen cracked voices assassinated "Malaguefia Salerosa," jubilantly they murdered it up to the spider-webbed rafters and well beyond.

That could have been a reference to anything from Jimmy Carter's Iran policy to Bill Clinton's intern policy to Hee-Haw reruns.