gee

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English [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus

Pronunciation [edit]

Interjection [edit]

gee

  1. A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
    Gee, I didn't know that!
    Gee, this is swell fun!
Usage notes [edit]

Gee is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on the persona of a freshly-scrubbed freckle-faced kid from days gone by (e.g. 1950 sitcom children, such as Beaver on Leave it to Beaver).

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Etymology 2 [edit]

Unknown

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Verb [edit]

gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)

  1. (often as imperative to a draft animal) To turn right or to cause to turn right.
    This horse won't gee when I tell him to.
    You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
    Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!
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Etymology 3 [edit]

Pronunciation of the letter G.

Pronunciation [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /dʒiː/

Noun [edit]

gee (plural gees)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
    One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.
  2. (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
    ten gees
  3. (physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
  4. (US, slang) A guy.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 197:
      Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
Related terms [edit]
  • gay (in shorthand)
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Etymology 4 [edit]

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Noun [edit]

gee (plural gees)

  1. (Ireland, slang) vagina, vulva[1]
    • 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, King Farouk, Dublin:
      The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
    • 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, p. 65. Secker & Warburg (ISBN: 0-436-20052-X):
      But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
    • 1992, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, p. 71. John Calder (ISBN: 978-0714542133):
      Lily Neary has a lovely gee and her pore Paddy got his B.A. and by the holy fly I wouldn't recommend you to ask me what class of a tree they were under when he put his hand on her and enjoyed that.
    • 1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, p. 7. Methuen (ISBN: 978-0413699909):
      And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

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References [edit]

  1. ^ The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0-415-25937-1.

Afrikaans [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Dutch geven.

Verb [edit]

gee (past participle gegee)

  1. to give

Finnish [edit]

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Noun [edit]

gee

  1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
  2. (physics) the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity

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