English

Proper noun

Gee

1. A surname​.
2. A male given name

English

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): geez, gosh, golly

Derived terms

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

Translations

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. (often as imperative to a draft animal) To 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.

   Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!

2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)

Derived terms

• gee haw whimmy diddle

Coordinate terms

• haw

Translations

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.

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/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

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

gee ‎(plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) ****, ****^[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.

See also

• gee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EEG

References

1. ↑ The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0-415-25937-1.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch geven.

Verb

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

1. to give

Estonian

Noun

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

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

gee

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

Declension

Anagrams

• ege

Võro

Noun

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

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

Inflection

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