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gee en · INTJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒiː/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
   • 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, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures:
   • Gee, I didn't know that!
   • Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
   • Every night when I start to sing that song, I think, “Gee, what a song. What a moment.” 2017 May 18, Mickey Rapkin, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the Studio”, in billboard.com:

Deriveds

gee whillickers · hully gee · golly gee · gee whittakers · gee willickers · gee whillikers · gee whiz · gee willikers · gee whilligers · gee whillikins

Synonyms

'sblood · wow · oh my life · diggety · shut my mouth · flaming Nora · gee whiz · golly gee willikers · oh my gosh · I'll be dashed · oh my Goddess · heavens · fancy that · holy doodle · heavens to Betsy · glory be · hallo · lawl · begorra · shut the front door · I'll be buggered · holy buckets · I'll be damned · mercy sakes · Jerusalem crickets · holy fudge · jumping Jesus · gad so · cor · zounds · heavens above · son of a gun · Jaysus · coo · Mary and Joseph · oh my fuck · bless my heart · leapin' lizards · my Lord · gorblimey · holy fuck knuckles · great Caesar · egads · oh my heck · I'll be darned · my conscience · by golly · holy shit · by George · good Lord · holy moly · good gracious · good gravy · googly-moogly · cor lummy · geeminy · oh my goodness · I'm blowed · lawks · rah · gadsbud · sacré bleu · whoa · I'll be · by Jove · gadzooks · shit fire and save matches · Jiminy Cricket · Christ · Holy Mother of God · get out of town · by all that is holy · hot damn · holy magnum · holy macaroni · suffering centipedes · oh my · geez Louise · O gemini · ods bodikin · great balls of fire · good golly · Christ on a stick · I'll be bound · bleeding Nora · I'll be blowed · holy mackerel · by gum · OMG · holy crickets · gracious · my heavens · holy guacamole · cowabunga · I'll be a son of a bitch · jumping Jehoshaphat · Christ alive · oh my goodness gracious · yowzah · chihuahua · my God · Christ on a cracker · golly gosh · oi · crikey · ruddy hell · Christ on a raft · Jesus Murphy · by jingo · omigosh · holy cannoli · gee willikers · goodness gracious · my goodness · holy fuck · byrlady · holy kamoley · my word · holy kamoly · sweet Mary · please · 'struth · strewth · hold up · jeezy-peezy · Holy Mother · blow me · dear God · egad · 'sdeath · ay · jeepers creepers · oh my word · Gadsbodikins · caramba · yikes bikes · sweet mother of Jesus · man alive · oh em gee · omigod · goodness gracious me · blimey · snakes alive · my sainted uncle · bleeding heck · by gosh · oh my God · holy ravioli · wowzers · my sainted aunt · good grief · I'll be hornswoggled · Gordon Bennett · blow me pink · stone me · Jesus H. Christ · bless us · well · jeez · Jesus Christ · holy Toledo · I'll be a monkey's uncle · I'll be dipped · by God · jings · by gummy · Lord · holy dignity · God's teeth · bless my soul · jeepers · eep · what · sodding hell · Jesus · ohmigod · Jupiter · blow my buttons · oh my days · flipping heck · shiver my timbers · Christ on a crutch · ermahgerd · goodness me · knock me down with a feather · gosh · Lord love a duck · oh my hell · ZOMG · holy Moses · mamma mia · blow me over · my gosh · ye gods · good God · ruddy Nora · knock me over with a feather · holy crud · praise the Lord · criminy · sakes alive · suffering Sappho · oh my stars · gee · dear Lord · geshmak · I'll be jiggered · goodness · heyday · by the living jingo · I'll be dipped in shit · I never · I'll be shot · hello · jinkies · ZOMFG · my giddy aunt · odsfish · holy crap on a cracker · slap my ass and call me Sally · shart · holy smoke · blow me down · holy Hannah · blow me backwards · Judas Priest · Christ on a bike · dear me · golly · by juckies · hell's bells · geez · peas and rice · zound · gosh all hemlock · bloody Nora · good heavens · sheesh · adzooks · crivvens · gyatt · Jeebus · imagine that · jeezy peeps · what do you know · strike me pink · fucking Nora · holy stromboli · Christ almighty · God in heaven · holy moley · slap my ass and call me Judy · wowee · my · cor blimey · blige · great Caesar's ghost · by thunder · mama mia · odzookens · flipping Nora · lawks a-mercy · holy hell · gaw · I'll be a dirty bird! · by Allah · 'sheart · Jesus fuck · mother of Pearl · heavens to Murgatroyd · fucking hell · blow me tight · I'll be hanged · suffering succotash · Mother of God · zooterkins · God Almighty · by cracky · Lord be praised · by Jupiter · I say · dearie me · zoinks · bloody hell · great Scott · blow me up · sweet Jesus · no way · chuffing hell · you don't say · deary me · fuck me · butter my butt and call me a biscuit · mirabile dictu · sweet Grandma on stilts · I'll be danged · Jesum Crow · lordy · my my · hey · cripes · Janey Mack · I'll be a son of a gun · oh · fuark · great googly moogly · zowie · holy cow · holy crap · shitting Nora · lauks · gramercy · hooly dooly · holy man · stone the crows · whoah · zoiks · oh my Lord · jeez Louise · yikes · holy cricket · land sakes · suffering Moses · sweet mother of God · waow

Translations (33)

mk ле́ле (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · ru бо́же (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · it alla faccia (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · pt ena pá! (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · pt eia! (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · lou bòys (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · sv jösses (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · bg леле (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · bg ах (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · pt xi! (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · it cribbio (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mi aeha (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mi anana (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · sv kors (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mi ānana (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · fi jukra (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · id kok (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · lou boug (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · fi hitsi (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · it osteria (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · ka ღმერთო (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · vi trời (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · fi voi hurja (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · pt ena! (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · nl gut (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mi ēhe (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · sv oj (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · es vaya (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · it perbacco (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mk бо́же (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · nl goh (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · mi wī (exclamation of surprise or pleasure) · ka ვა (exclamation of surprise or pleasure)

gee en · INTJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒiː/

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

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!

gee en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒiː/

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

1. 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 318:

Forms

gee en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒiː/

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

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, dialectal, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Coordinates

haw

Deriveds

gee pole · gee and haw · geepound · milligee · agee · gee haw whammy diddle · gee up · gee haw whimmy diddle · gee along · gee back · haw and gee

Translations (5)

cs hot (to turn away from the driver) · de hott (to turn away from the driver) · fr hue (to turn away from the driver) · bg but see чиба (to cause an animal to move away) · ro cea (to turn away from the driver)

gee en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈd͡ʒiː/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
   • 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:
   • One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
   alt of grand
   • ten gees
3. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
   alt of gravity
   • 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:
   • 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:
4. (US, slang) 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:

Forms

Deriveds

zero gee · geepound · jaygee · oh em gee · GeeDubs · zero-gee · milligee · agee · Oh Em Gee · high-gee · low-gee · oh-em-gee

Relateds

gay

Translations (47)

vi gờ (name of the letter G, g) · el τζι (name of the letter G, g) · ar جِي (name of the letter G, g) · ar جِي (name of the letter G, g) · ja ジー (name of the letter G, g) · ast gue (name of the letter G, g) · id ge (name of the letter G, g) · gl G (the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity) · cy èg (name of the letter G, g) · tl dyi (name of the letter G, g) · ko 지 (name of the letter G, g) · oc ge (name of the letter G, g) · lv gā (name of the letter G, g) · ru джи (name of the letter G, g) · th จี (name of the letter G, g) · haw gā (name of the letter G, g) · ru гэ (name of the letter G, g) · bn জি (name of the letter G, g) · ar غِي (name of the letter G, g) · ru жэ (name of the letter G, g) · la gē (name of the letter G, g) · is gé (name of the letter G, g) · tr ge (name of the letter G, g) · mr जी (name of the letter G, g) · fi G (the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity) · it gi (name of the letter G, g) · gl gue (name of the letter G, g) · hi जी (name of the letter G, g) · ga gé (name of the letter G, g) · pt gê (name of the letter G, g) · io ge (name of the letter G, g) · eo go (name of the letter G, g) · ga gort (name of the letter G, g) · nl gee (name of the letter G, g) · hu gé (name of the letter G, g) · ca ge (name of the letter G, g) · vi giê (name of the letter G, g) · ms ji (name of the letter G, g) · es ge (name of the letter G, g) · lt gė (name of the letter G, g) · my ဂျီ (name of the letter G, g) · fi gee (name of the letter G, g) · vi ghê (name of the letter G, g) · fr gé (name of the letter G, g) · fi tonni (slang: a thousand dollars) · bg ге (name of the letter G, g) · ru коса́рь (slang: a thousand dollars)

gee en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /ɡiː/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
   • 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:
   • And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about. 1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:
   • 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 Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:
   • The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why? 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:

Forms

gee en · VERB · etymology 5

Pronunciation

• /d͡ʒiː/

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

1. 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 voyagers, etc. by the late ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.:

Forms

gee en · VERB · etymology 6

Meanings

1. (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:

Forms

Relateds

squill-gee · skew-gee · gee-eyed