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English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Interjection

gee

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Verb

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.

2. (intransitive) To cause an animal to move in this way.

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

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

Coordinate terms

• haw

Derived terms

• gee haw whimmy diddle

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.

Interjection

gee

1. A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter 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.
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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
   • 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:

     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:

     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:

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

Etymology 5

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Verb

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

1. To suit or fit.

See also

• gee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• EEG

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?/

Verb

gée

1. (transitive) find

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch geven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

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.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?/, [??e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: gee

Noun

gee

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

Declension

Anagrams

• ege

Manx

Verb

gee

1. present participle of ee

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?/

Adverb

?ee

1. Alternative form of ??a

Võro

Noun

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

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English given.

Verb

gee (past simple gae)

1. give

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongolian ??? (ger)/??? (ger).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)/

Noun

ger (plural gers)

1. A yurt.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 133:

     The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew ????? (ger).

Noun

ger (plural gerim)

1. A male convert to Judaism.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GRE, Reg, erg, gre, reg

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *gaura. Compare Lithuanian gauras (“hair, down, tuft of hair”), Latvian gauri (“pubic hair”) and Middle Irish gúaire (“hair”).

Noun

ger m

1. squirrel (furry)

Related terms

• ketër

References

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English caru (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?r/

Noun

ger m (plural gerioù)

1. word
   • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 202.

     Skrijal a rae Loeiz o tistagan ar ger [...] 'Louis screamed in pronouncing the word'.

Derived terms

• geriadur ("dictionary")

Inflection

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *g?r, from Proto-Celtic *garyos (“word, speech”), from Proto-Indo-European *?h?r-, zero grade of *?eh?r-.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus, “voice, speech”), Khotanese [script needed] (ys?r-, “to sing”), Latin garri? (“chatter”), Old English ?earu (“sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [???r]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [?e?r]

Noun

ger m (plural geryow)

1. word
2. saying
3. report

Derived terms

• gerlyver ("dictionary")

Mutation

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??e??]
• Homophone: gerð

Etymology 1

Verb

ger

1. third-person singular present of gera

he, she, it does, makes

1. imperative singular of gera

do! make!

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse [Term?].

Noun

ger f (genitive singular gerar, uncountable)

1. yeast

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Danish gær, from Old Norse gerð, from Proto-Germanic *garwid?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. yeast

Declension

Synonyms

• (yeast): jöstur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gør, from Proto-Germanic *garwij? or *gerw?.

Noun

ger n (genitive singular gers, no plural)

1. rotting things (as feed)
2. flock, swarm (of carrion birds, flies, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, g?rr, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz.

Adjective

ger (not comparable)

1. ready, fully prepared

Inflection

Etymology 4

From Old Norse gerr, cognate with Old High German ger (“greedy”).

Adjective

ger (comparative gerari, superlative gerastur)

1. greedy, gluttonous

Inflection

Etymology 5

From Old Norse gerr, gj?rr, gørr, from Proto-Germanic *garwiz, comparative of the adverb corresponding to ger (3).

Adverb

ger (comparative form; superlative gerst)

1. better, more thoroughly

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??ar

Etymology

Variant of ??ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Noun

??r n (nominative plural ??r)

1. year
2. the runic character ? (/j/)

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”).

Noun

g?r m

1. spear

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Lombardic: ger
  • ?? Italian: gherone
• Middle High German: g?r
  • German: Ger

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *ger, from Proto-Germanic *geraz.

Adjective

ger

1. greedy

Alternative forms

• giri

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Old Saxon

Etymology

Variant of j?r.

Noun

ger n

1. year

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin gel?, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??er]

Noun

ger n (plural geruri)

1. frost (cold weather that causes frost to form)
2. frigidness, frosty weather

Declension

Derived terms

• gerar

Related terms

• degera

See also

• frig
• brum?

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?r/

Verb

ger

1. present tense of ge., contracted from the archaic giver

Welsh

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Preposition

ger

1. next to, near

   Synonym: ar bwys

2. beside

   Synonym: wrth

Derived terms

• gerbron (“before, in the presence of”)
• gerllaw (“nearby”)

Westrobothnian

Adjective

ger

1. Alternative spelling of gjer