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
- 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).
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
A general exclamation of surprise or pleasure
Etymology 2 [edit]
Unknown
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
- (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!
Coordinate terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to turn right
Etymology 3 [edit]
Pronunciation of the letter G.
Pronunciation [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /dʒiː/
Noun [edit]
gee (plural gees)
- 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.
- (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
- ten gees
- (physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
- (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.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 197:
Related terms [edit]
- gay (in shorthand)
Translations [edit]
name of the letter G, g
Etymology 4 [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
gee (plural gees)
- (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.
- 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, King Farouk, Dublin:
See also [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ 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)
- to give
Finnish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eː
Noun [edit]
gee
- The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
- (physics) the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity
Declension [edit]
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Declension of gee (type maa)
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