# So what the fuck does "squee" mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880 "2007-01-13T23:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/1 "2007-01-13T23:40:06Z")
The Straight Dope Message Board is an oasis in my day, a place where I can read thoughtful opinions from intelligent, literate fellow citizens of the world. But lately this “word” keeps popping up: “Squee!” Sometimes it is followed but more than one exclamation point. Why is this happening? All right – all you folks who have been saying or writing this, this _thing_ . . . what the fuck does it mean? I don’t even know what it means, but it sounds like something a half-bright 13-year-old girl might write. I’m irritated both by the stupid term and by my own ignorance, which I wish to have ameliorated, Goddamnit! And I want you to answer without using a single slang term. Just tell me, in standard English, _exactly_ what “squee” means when you use it. What are the conditions for the use of that term in a sentence? (The best rule-of-thumb definition of “definition” I know.) I put this in the Pit so that I could curse and use words like “moronic”. And since it is the Pit, feel free to curse me back. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/2 "2007-01-13T23:44:05Z")
From WikiPedia: > [@](#): > > Squee can be an exclamation, or interjection, of excited happiness or surprise, especially when referring to fangirls, or be a squeal of glee over something incredibly cute. I think it comes from anime/manga fans, originally. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/3 "2007-01-13T23:45:25Z")
It’s meant to be used as a one-word sentence, which is probably about all those who use it can handle. I take it as some sort of girlish squeal of delight. It’s extremely irritating. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/4 "2007-01-13T23:46:11Z")
I think it’s cute. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/5 "2007-01-13T23:46:41Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I don’t even know what it means, but it sounds like something a half-bright 13-year-old girl might write. [/QUOTE] Close. ‘Squee’ is the sound a half-bright 13-year-old girl would make when excited about something. It would often be accompanied by hand-clapping and jumping up & down. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/6 "2007-01-13T23:46:54Z")
It’s an anna madda… onnamato… onomattapoe… It’s a sound thing. Onomatopoeia? ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/7 "2007-01-13T23:47:47Z")
Or: What every fucker else just said. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/8 "2007-01-13T23:48:16Z")
It’s like “LOL! LOL!” and all the rest of that tribe. _sigh_ Not as irritating as hearing half-a-busload of high-pitched tennaged female voices at full volume, but … not something I’d use. Unless it was the sound effect for something cute and furry being stepped on. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/9 "2007-01-13T23:49:14Z")
[QUOTE=Kal] Close. ‘Squee’ is the sound a half-bright 13-year-old girl would make when excited about something. It would often be accompanied by hand-clapping and jumping up & down. [/QUOTE] Such as ponies, stickers, makeup, or boys. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/10 "2007-01-13T23:56:05Z")
It is also what you say when you see JTHM climbing through your bedroom window for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/11 "2007-01-14T00:04:57Z")
Can’t you bozos even deal with _slang?_ What would the English language _be_ unless the scrapers came up with some new words every so often? Buncha weak sisters, that’s whatcha are. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/12 "2007-01-14T00:11:55Z")
\*\*Eve!!! SQUEE!!!1!!\*\* ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/13 "2007-01-14T00:13:42Z")
ahem. yes, correct. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/14 "2007-01-14T00:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] It’s like “LOL! LOL!” and all the rest of that tribe. _sigh_ Not as irritating as hearing half-a-busload of high-pitched tennaged female voices at full volume, but … not something I’d use. Unless it was the sound effect for something cute and furry being stepped on. [/QUOTE] Oh dear me. I always thought it was the noise made by a 16 wheeler leviathan, in the seconds just before it impacted heavily with a half-busload of teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/15 "2007-01-14T00:15:14Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] It is also what you say when you see JTHM climbing through your bedroom window for the first time. [/QUOTE] Jake The Hachet Murderer? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/16 "2007-01-14T00:15:46Z")
Thank God manly first-person shooter games have stuck with the more masculine “woot!” ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/17 "2007-01-14T00:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sevastopol] Oh dear me. I always thought it was the noise made by a 16 wheeler leviathan, in the seconds just before it impacted heavily with a half-busload of teenagers. [/QUOTE] Oh please. You’re just trying to cheer me up. After travelling 7 miles with said half-busload of female “squeeing” teenagers, I’d probably welcome the leviathan to put us _all_ out of our misery. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/18 "2007-01-14T00:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=Eutychus] It is also what you say when you see JTHM climbing through your bedroom window for the first time. [/QUOTE] And he assumes that’s your name. > [@Colibri](#): > > Jake The Hachet Murderer? 😕 Johnny The Homicidal Maniac. (One of my favourite comics, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/19 "2007-01-14T00:27:45Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Jake The Hachet Murderer? 😕 [/QUOTE] Johnny The Homicidal Maniac. It’s a graphic novel, and in this instance of “squee,” it’s an exclamation of fear and terror. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/20 "2007-01-14T00:36:08Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Jake The Hachet Murderer? 😕 [/QUOTE] So very, very close. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. JTHM is the centerpoint title of a number of comics by Jhonen Vasquez (who also created Invader Zim). The others are Squee (about Nny’s neighbour, Squee - so named for the fact that he frequently lets out said noise in fear), and I Feel Sick (about Devi, a young woman Nny had a less than successful date with). And that brings us back to ‘squee’ - it’s a general noise of incoherent excitement. Vasquez’s Squee usually squeed in terror, but most squeeing outside that is in joy. It’s onomatopoeia for a scream - girly, but not actually necessarily emitted by a girl\* - usually in reaction to seeing something cute, or having something really good happen to you, or suchlike things. - In fact, the girly glee embodied in the squee is more striking when it’s not a young girl doing it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880.md?page=2)