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
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"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
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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