😂 Loud laugh 🙃 A foolish person 😆 To laugh harshly 🐴 Donkey sound

heehaw

1 9.9

A loud rude person who acts foolishly

noun
/ˈhiːhɔː/

Offensive

: patán

I'm the best heehaw-er in the field now.

Examples

The comedian was such a heehaw that everyone laughed at his silly jokes.
During the meeting, his heehaw comments made it hard for anyone to take him seriously.
Everyone rolled their eyes at the heehaw who loudly interrupted the presentation.

Synonyms

choad

vsheehaw

Offensive

1 9.9

A rude word for a person who acts very foolishly

is focused on noisy, boorish behaviour rather than on direct contempt for character

hoghead

vsheehaw

Offensive

1 9.9

An insulting word for a rude or stupid person

is aimed at loud, foolish, boorish behaviour rather than crude offensiveness

gaw

vsheehaw

Offensive

9.9

A person who is foolish or clumsy

is informal and insults loud, foolish, boorish people rather than being archaic

How Boorish

lout

Offensive

13 7.9

heehaw

Offensive

1 9.9

oaf

Offensive

21 6.4

fool

Offensive

∞ 1.4

to clown

Informal

24 3.0

Surface Forms

heehaw singular

heehaws plural

Morphology

heehaw = hee + haw (semi-transparent) = hee + haw

The sense 'a loud, foolish, or boorish person' is a derogatory metaphorical extension from the donkey-bray association and is not fully predictable from the sound components alone.

Etymology

Heehaw comes from the noisy sound of a donkey's 'bray', the 'hee-haw' call. That's why calling someone a heehaw means they are loud, foolish, or rude, like the animal's noisy cry.