gee

See also: Gee and gée

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Interjection

gee

1. A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Gee, I didn't know that!

   Gee, this is swell fun!

Usage notes

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

• (exclamation of surprise): See Thesaurus:wow

Derived terms

• gee whiz
• gee whillikers, gee willikers, gee willickers, gee whillikins

Translations

exclamation of surprise or pleasure

• Dutch: goh (nl)
• Finnish: jukra (fi), hitsi (fi), voi hurja
• Georgian: ვა (va), ღმერთო (ɣmerto)
• Indonesian: kok (id)
• Italian: cribbio (it), perbacco (it), alla faccia, osteria (it)

• Maori: ānana, aeha, ēhe, wī, anana
• Portuguese: ena!, ena pá!, xi! (pt)
• Russian: бо́же (ru) (bóže)
• Spanish: vaya (es)
• Swedish: kors (sv), oj (sv), jösses (sv)

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) 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.

2. (intransitive) To cause an animal to move in this way.

   You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.

3. (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.

Coordinate terms

• haw

Derived terms

• gee haw whimmy diddle

Translations

to turn away from the driver

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. A gee-gee, a horse.
   • 1879, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance, Act I:

     You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

Interjection

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter 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

• gay (in shorthand)

Translations

name of the letter G, g

• Arabic: غِي‎ m (ḡī), جِي‎ m (jī), جِي‎ m (gī)
• Catalan: ge (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Esperanto: go (eo)
• Finnish: gee (fi)
• French: gé (fr) m
• Galician: gue (gl) m
• Greek: τζι n (tzi)
• Hawaiian: gā
• Hindi: जी (hi) (jī)
• Icelandic: gé
• Ido: ge (io)
• Irish: gé (ga), gort

• Italian: gi f
• Japanese: ジー (jī)
• Korean: 지 (ko) (ji)
• Latin: gē (la)
• Latvian: gā
• Lithuanian: gė
• Malay: ji
• Marathi: जी (jī)
• Portuguese: gê (pt) m
• Russian: джи (ru) n (dži) (English), жэ n (žɛ), гэ (ru) n (gɛ)
• Spanish: ge (es) f
• Thai: จี (th) (jii)
• Turkish: ge (tr)
• Vietnamese: giê (vi), gờ (vi), ghê (vi)

slang: a thousand dollars

• Finnish: tonni (fi)

• Russian: коса́рь (ru) m (kosárʹ)

the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity

• Finnish: G (fi)

• Galician: G (gl)

Etymology 4

Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) vagina, vulva
   • 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:

     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:

     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:

     And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

Etymology 5

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Verb

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

• gee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EEG

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch geven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɪə/

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Verb

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

1. to give

   Ek gee op!

   I give up!

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Estonian

Noun

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

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

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː/, [ˈɡe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: gee

Noun

gee

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

Declension

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

Possessive forms of gee (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	geeni	geemme
2nd person	geesi	geenne
3rd person	geensä

Anagrams

• ege

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Manx

Verb

gee

1. present participle of ee

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeː/

Adverb

ġee

1. Alternative form of ġēa

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Võro

Noun

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

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.