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English

Verb

jee (third-person singular simple present jees, present participle jeeing, simple past and past participle jeed)

1. Alternative spelling of gee

Dutch

Etymology

Contracted form of Jezus, used as a minced oath.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Interjection

jee

1. an expression of surprise: gosh, golly, gee

Synonyms

• ach

Related terms

• jeetje, jees

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

jee

1. (colloquial) yeah!, yay! (expressing joy)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German io, eo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?/
  • Rhymes: -e?

Adverb

jee

1. ever

Synonyms

• jeemools

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish día.

Noun

jee m (genitive singular jee, plural jeeaghyn or jeeghyn)

1. god, deity, godhead

Derived terms

• ben jee (“goddess”)

See also

• Jee

Etymology 2

From Old Irish di.

Pronoun

jee

1. third-person singular feminine of da

Etymology 3

Pronoun

jee

1. Alternative form of j'ee

Mutation

Saterland Frisian

Adverb

jee

1. yes

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