gee
A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
Interjection
- 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!
Origin
Unknown.
Interjection dated
- A 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. - 1935, Jane Murfin,...
Synonyms: adzooks ay caramba mirabile dictu chihuahua begorra bleeding heck bleeding Nora bless my heart bless my soul bless us blige blimey bloody hell bloody Nora blow me blow me backwards blow me down blow me over blow me pink blow me tight blow me up blow my buttons butter my butt and call me a biscuit
Origin
A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.
Derived
gee whillikers gee willikers gee willickers gee whillikins gee whillickers gee whilligers gee whittakers gee whiz golly gee hully gee
Noun Entry 3
- 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. - 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
- 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. - 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
- ten gees
- Abbreviation 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. - 1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:
- 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. - 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449:
- A guy.
- Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck. - 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:
Origin
From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).
Forms
Related
Derived
agee GeeDubs geepound high-gee jaygee low-gee milligee Oh Em Gee oh em gee oh-em-gee zero gee zero-gee
Noun Entry 4
- A gee-gee, a horse.
- You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee - 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page...
Forms
Noun Ireland, slang
- Vagina, vulva.
- The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why? - 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
- But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that.... - 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:
- 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. - 1992, Samuel...
Origin
Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).
Forms
Verb Entry 6
- 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.
- 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.
- To agree; to harmonize.
- It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know. - 1918, Mary Stanbery Watts, The Boardman Family, page 342:
- 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. - 1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt:
Forms
Derived
agee gee along gee and haw gee haw whammy diddle gee haw whimmy diddle gee pole geepound gee up haw and gee milligee
Verb Entry 7
- To suit or fit.
- That will just "gee". - 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...
Forms
Verb dialectal, obsolete
- To 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;" […] - 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days: