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jee

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

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jeel

English

Etymology 1

Noun

jeel (plural jeels)

  1. Alternative form of jheel
    • 1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, Volume 1, page 246,
      The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.
    • 1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23, page 16,
      On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.
    • 1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 24, page 551,
      The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.

Etymology 2

Manx jeeyl, jeeill ("damage"), cognate to Irish díobháil.

Noun

jeel

  1. (Isle of Man) Damage; harm.
    • 1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79:
      And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,
      Because of coorse she navar reckoned
      But Misthriss Banks could do the jeel 1
      She was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel
      On her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !
      []
      1 Damage.
    • 1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16:
      An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,
      But that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel.
    • 1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect,
      page 73, entry "Govvag":
      The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.
      page 188, entry "Traa-dy-liooar":
      An' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)

Further reading

  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “jeel”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

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