gee
interjectionverbnouninterjectionnounnounverbverbcommon in dialogue
- //d͡ʒiː//
- //ɡiː//
Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
interjection
- 1
datedA general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
Gee, I didn't know that!
Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
Stephanie (Irene Dunne): Oh, yes. I like the English. And the Americans, too! / John Kent (Randolph Scott): Gee, that's swell. I'm an American! / Stephanie: Gee, that's swe–, I mean, I thought so.
Every night when I start to sing that song, I think, “Gee, what a song. What a moment.”
Etymology
A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.
verb
- 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.
- 2
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
obsoleteTo agree; to harmonize.
It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.
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.
Etymology
Unknown.
noun
- 1
A gee-gee, a horse.
You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee
interjection
- 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!
noun
- 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.
The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
- 2
slangA guy.
Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
- 3
Variant of grandslangAbbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
ten gees
- 4
Variant of gravityAbbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).
noun
- 1
slangVagina, vulva.
The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
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.
And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).
verb
- 1
To suit or fit.
That will just "gee".
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo give.
And good old Holmes delivered his soul on the walk home of many wise sayings, and, as the song says, "Gee'd 'em a sight of good advice;" […]
Forms
- plural
- gees
- past tense
- geed
- past participle
- geed
- present participle
- geeing
- third person singular
- gees
gee · Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
Gee · A surname.geek · A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or…geez · An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.