gee

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

gee

1. (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow

   Gee, I didn't know that!

   Gee, this is swell fun!

   • 1935, Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures:

     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.

Gee is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on an air of youthful innocence.

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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. (transitive) 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. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
   • 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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gee (plural gees)

1. A gee-gee, a horse.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Act I”, in The Pirates of Penzance  […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:

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

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!

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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.

   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     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. (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, Margaret St. Clair, “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, Tom Clancy, 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, published 2011, page 197:

     Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.

• high-gee
• jaygee
• low-gee
• Oh Em Gee, oh em gee, oh-em-gee
• zero gee, zero-gee

• gay (in shorthand)

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/

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• Homophone: ghee
• Rhymes: -iː

gee (plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.[1]
   • 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:

     The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?

   • 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:

     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, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:

     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, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:

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

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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

1. To suit or fit.
   • 1867, W.H. Smyth, 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".

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː/, [ˈɡeː]
• Hyphenation: gee

gée (autobenefactive geyité)

1. (transitive) find
2. (transitive) recover
3. (transitive) get, obtain

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Dutch geven.

• IPA^(key): /χɪə/

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

1. to give

   Ek gee op! ― I give up!

• geh

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊eː/
• Rhymes: -eː

gee (third-person singular simple present git, past participle gee, auxiliary haa) (Switzerland)

1. (ditransitive) to give (in various senses)
2. (impersonal, transitive) Used to indicate that something exists. Usually translated as there is/are or there exist(s)

   Synonym: haa

   So öppis gits nume doo! ― Something like this only exists here. (literally, “Something like this it gives only here.”)

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

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

From Latin gē.

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

gee

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

• ege

gee

1. present participle of ee

• IPA^(key): /jeː/

ġee

1. Alternative form of ġēa

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

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Middle English given. Doublet of yie.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Homophone: gaaye

gee (third-person singular gees, simple past gae, past participle gien)

1. to give

• gu es (“give us”)
• t'gie

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41