gee

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See also: Gee and gée

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).

Synonyms[edit]
  • (exclamation of surprise): For semantic relationships of this sense, see wow in the Thesaurus.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Unknown.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the 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.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
    • 1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt
      I did use a few of the items, in Elinor's handwriting, to check the writing on the letter that was in the box with the money. It geed.
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Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

gee (plural gees)

  1. A gee-gee, a horse.

Interjection[edit]

gee

  1. A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
    Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).

Pronunciation[edit]

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.
    • 1949 July, St. Clair, Margaret, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:
      I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.
    • 1987, Clancy, Tom, Patriot Games, page 449:
      So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can.
  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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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gee (plural gees)

  1. (Ireland, slang) vagina, vulva[1]

Etymology 5[edit]

Unknown.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. To suit or fit
    • 1867, Smyth, W.H., The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including some more especially military and scientific, but useful to seamen; as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc. by the late ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.:
      That will just "gee".

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. →ISBN.

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch geven.

Verb[edit]

gee (present gee, present participle gewende, past participle gegee)

  1. to give

Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

gee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gee

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

Declension[edit]

Inflection of gee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative gee geet
genitive geen geiden
geitten
partitive geetä geitä
illative geehen geihin
singular plural
nominative gee geet
accusative nom. gee geet
gen. geen
genitive geen geiden
geitten
partitive geetä geitä
inessive geessä geissä
elative geestä geistä
illative geehen geihin
adessive geellä geillä
ablative geeltä geiltä
allative geelle geille
essive geenä geinä
translative geeksi geiksi
instructive — gein
abessive geettä geittä
comitative — geineen

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Manx[edit]

Verb[edit]

gee

  1. present participle of ee

Võro[edit]

Noun[edit]

gee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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