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English

Etymology 1

1670s: variant of British English zed, by analogy with other letters such as bee, dee, tee and vee, and standardized by Noah Webster; from Middle French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta), from Hebrew ?? (zayin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zi?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

zee (plural zees) (chiefly US, Newfoundland, Philippines, sometimes Canada)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds.

3. (colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep.

Synonyms

• zed (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
• izzard (Scotland, South Asia)

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

zee (third-person singular simple present zees, present participle zeeing, simple past and past participle zeed) (chiefly US, Newfoundland)

1. (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
2. (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.

See also

• zeta

Etymology 2

Article

zee

1. Pronunciation spelling of the, representing primarily French-accented English.

Anagrams

• EEZ, Eze.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch s?o, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ze?/
• Hyphenation: zee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

zee f (plural zeeën, diminutive zeetje n)

1. sea

   De oude man en de zee.

   The Old Man and the Sea.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: see
• ? Sranan Tongo: se
• ? Saramaccan: zé

Estonian

Noun

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

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

Latin

Noun

zee

1. vocative singular of zeus

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Cognate with Zoogocho Zapotec za'a.

Noun

zee

1. a fresh ear of corn

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 20

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-zee (declinable)

1. old

Inflection

Antonyms

• -pya

Related terms

• mzee
• uzee

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