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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

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. Obsolete form of gree.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, Ger, Ger., Ger??, Reg, erg, ger, reg

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gré (“step”), from Latin gradus. The senses related to success are potentially from Scottish Gaelic gré.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. A step, gree or rung; a part of a staircase or ladder.
2. A stage or level as part of a scale; a level of a discontinuous scale.
3. A degree or extent; a level of a continuous scale.
4. Social or professional standing or status; one's position in society or a subset of it.
5. A degree or generation of ancestry; a stage in one's family history.
6. Success, winning or achievement in battle or sport.
7. (geometry) An angular measurement amounting to 1/360 of a circle.
8. (rare) A degree (educational qualification handed out by tertiary institutions)

Related terms

• degre

Descendants

• English: gree (obsolete)
• Scots: gree

References

• “gr??, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 2

From Old French gré (“goodwill”), from Latin gr?tum, a noun from Latin gr?tus.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (uncountable)

1. A favourable or good attitude; goodwill, kindness.
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale:

     And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.

2. Satisfaction, compensation, understanding.

Related terms

• agre
• greable
• green

Descendants

• English: gree (archaic)
• Scots: gree (obsolete)

References

• “gr??, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 3

Verb

gre

1. Alternative form of green

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gr?saz. Compare Mooring gra, Heligolandic grai, Föhr and Wiedingharde grä.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?r?/

Adjective

gre

1. (Sylt) grey

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English grey.

Adjective

gre

1. grey

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gregis (compare Old Irish graig (“horses”)); cognate with Latin grex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre f (plural greoedd)

1. stud (of horses), flock, herd

   Synonyms: haid, gyr, praidd, diadell

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