# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/21 "2007-01-14T00:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] - In fact, the girly glee embodied in the squee is more striking when it’s not a young girl doing it. [/QUOTE] You might be right. For some reason I imagine it used by overweight middle-aged men who live with their mothers. A bit like Comic Book Store Guy in the _Simpsons_. ---
**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, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/22 "2007-01-14T00:52:26Z")
OK, so can I change this from a pitting of an rather expressive and innocuous new slang word and change it to a pitting of someone who would use an acronym from some goddam esoteric _comic book_, and expect anyone to know what the fuck you’re talking about? If your fingers are so weak and broken you can’t type out “Johnny the Homicidal Maniac,” you need to be in bed with a heating pad, not further injuring your digits on a message board. Oh, and _Squeeee! Squeeee! Squeeee! Squeeee! Squeeee!!!_ ---
**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, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/23 "2007-01-14T00:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] 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. [/QUOTE] On investigation I have discovered it is commonly rendered as ‘Squee!’ _rather than_ ‘Squee …’ as I had imagined. I too plunge deeper into despair and error. ---
**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, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/24 "2007-01-14T00:56:14Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] some goddam esoteric _comic book_, and expect anyone to know what the fuck you’re talking about? [/QUOTE] Well, there were two posts right after mine. And I’d always assumed that Doper **Squee** got his name from JTHM. No _too_ esoteric! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/25 "2007-01-14T01:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] OK, so can I change this from a pitting of an rather expressive and innocuous new slang word and change it to a pitting of someone who would use an acronym from some goddam esoteric _comic book_, and expect anyone to know what the fuck you’re talking about? If your fingers are so weak and broken you can’t type out “Johnny the Homicidal Maniac,” you need to be in bed with a heating pad, not further injuring your digits on a message board. [/QUOTE] Sure. Live it up. I can take the heat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/26 "2007-01-14T01:30:58Z")
“Meh.” ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/27 "2007-01-14T01:55:38Z")
[Kitten picture!](http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/shamrock22769/5b8d4e59.jpg) Squeeee!!! 😛 ---
**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 14, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/28 "2007-01-14T01:59:42Z")
Thank you! Well, some of you. Now that I know some of the background. . . I think my prejudice has actually deepened. Truly a moronic bit of pop-culture slang. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/29 "2007-01-14T02:02:48Z")
[Things](http://www.bassett-hound.info/bassett_hound_puppy.jpg) [that](http://www.rabbits-bunnies.com/pictures-images-photos/rabbits-bunnies-01.jpg) [make](http://ice.cream.org/~nickm/kitten.jpg) [you](http://oaks.nvg.org/lioncub.jpg) [go](http://www.pets4you.com/pages/images/kaylous_puppie3.jpg) [“sqee!”](http://gamito.startux.org/imgs/jack_sparrow_plog.jpg) (unless you have no soul at all). ---
**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, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/30 "2007-01-14T02:09:36Z")
[Squee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squee) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/31 "2007-01-14T02:30:38Z")
The king of [squee](http://community.livejournal.com/baaaaabyanimals/663456.html?style=mine) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/32 "2007-01-14T02:34:53Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] You might be right. For some reason I imagine it used by overweight middle-aged men who live with their mothers. [/QUOTE] Ahem. As a slightly out-of-shape 40-year-old who lives across the building from mama, I marginally resent that comment. Besides, I only squee about animals. And babies. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/33 "2007-01-14T02:35:12Z")
I guess the questions becomes is it possible to be twee and express squee at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/34 "2007-01-14T02:42:59Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] 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. [/QUOTE] He’s just being squeamish. And I like this “squee” word, although I never have a chance to use it. I really ought to buy a cute kitty or hamster or something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/35 "2007-01-14T02:45:32Z")
[QUOTE=Celyn] And I like this “squee” word, although I never have a chance to use it. [/QUOTE] The only time I’ve actually used it out loud (instead of just in a post) was when an astronaut called me at work. I managed to get through the conversation, but once we hung up I got all fangirly and ran around the room squeeing. I can’t help it. It was an _astronaut_. (It made that shuttle mission tense for me, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/36 "2007-01-14T02:49:46Z")
Jings\*, show off, why don’t you. 🙂 I mean, at least I _could_ quickly arrange to acquire a cute furry quadruped, but I think making friends with an astronaut might be a bit trickier. Not too many of those in my neck of the woods. - Yes, I admit I did say that one just to see how it would be received. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/37 "2007-01-14T02:52:02Z")
No, [this is squee.](http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Shell-SAC-Complete-Season/dp/B000HIVQAS/sr=8-3/qid=1168742867/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-0641188-2585401?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) (For me, anyways. Or it would be if I didn’t already have it.) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/38 "2007-01-14T03:32:06Z")
Oh do get real. You know it’s “squeal”. Don’t even pretend you don’t. It’s been re-rendered because the trailing “l” is bad onomatopoeia in the original. Anyone prepared to say they don’t know what “squeal” means? **Eve’s** right. You folks sound like my Dad, who finds every activity engaged in since 1952, if it departs from what and how things were done before then, to be silly and annoying. What’s next? Another rant about “And then she goes…” – ? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/39 "2007-01-14T03:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] 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. [/QUOTE] Ice Wolf has just been catapulted into sainthood. Demand combat pay! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880/40 "2007-01-14T03:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=Celyn] Jings\*, show off, why don’t you. 🙂 I mean, at least I _could_ quickly arrange to acquire a cute furry quadruped, but I think making friends with an astronaut might be a bit trickier. Not too many of those in my neck of the woods. [/QUOTE] See? I think it’s highly squee-worthy. 😃 And he sent me an autographed picture, so I’ll admit I still get really wound up and flap my arms around if anyone asks me about it! Yeah, I am that dorky. _squee_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-the-fuck-does-squee-mean/387880.md?page=3)