Dictionary

gee-gee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdʒiˌdʒi/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdʒiːˌdʒiː/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Reduplication of gee (“a command to an animal to move forward, go faster, or turn right”).

Meanings

1. (childish, colloquial, usually) A horse.
   • [W]hen great Aunt Ryder was exhausted with carrying her little nephews pick-a-back, Aunt Ellen was always willing to become a ‘gee-gee’ or riding-horse in her place, although certainly one of no very prancing and fiery temperament. 1860 April 14, “The Bateman Household, and What Became of Them”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume XIII, number 328, London: W. & R. Chambers 47 Paternoster Row and High Street Edinburgh, →OCLC, chapter XXIV (The Best of the Household), page 236:
   • I once heard a gee-gee neigh. / I thought he was calling for heigh. / But a man tapped my head, / And smilingly said, / "It's just that he feels a bit geigh." 1946 February 18, W. D. Walker, “Letters to the Editors”, in Life, volume 20, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
   • Oh, you don’t catch me on a gee-gee’s [footnote: A “gee-gee” is a horse.] back again, / It’s not the sort of place that you can doze on, / For the only ’orse that I think that I can ride / Is the one that the m’ssis dries the clothes on. 2015, E. Maud Graham, “End of the Camp Life”, in Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen, editors, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902, Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 88:
   • Then one day his bookkeeper didn't show up for work, just disappeared, the financial records and journals gone with him. / 'He stole from you?' / 'He blew it all on the gee-gees and cards. I had no idea. You just can't trust people Jamie.' 2015, Tim Griffiths, “Glebe and Lithgow, 1898–1910”, in Endurance, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

Forms

Relateds

gee

Synonyms

horsie · horsy · horsey

Translations (4)

hu paci (colloquial, usually childish: a horse) · hu lovacska (colloquial, usually childish: a horse) · lv zirdziņš (colloquial, usually childish: a horse) · fi heppa (colloquial, usually childish: a horse)