Present participle of heehaw; the act of making a donkey's braying sound.
The present participle of 'heehaw,' formed by adding '-ing' to describe the ongoing action.
In old stories and comedies, when characters imitate a donkey's bray, they're 'heehawing'—it's one of those sound-words that gets used more in writing than actual donkeys use the sound itself.
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