Etymology A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.
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Dated A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
Gee, I didn't know that!
Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
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Stephanie (Irene Dunne): Oh, yes. I like the English. And the Americans, too! / John Kent (Randolph Scott): Gee, that's swell. I'm an American! / Stephanie: Gee, that's swe–, I mean, I thought so.1935, Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures:
Every night when I start to sing that song, I think, “Gee, what a song. What a moment.”2017 May 18, Mickey Rapkin, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the Studio”, in billboard.com:
It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.1918, Mary Stanbery Watts, The Boardman Family, page 342:
I did use a few of the items, in Elinor's handwriting, to check the writing on the letter that was in the box with the money. It geed.1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt:
You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 318:
gee
intj
Etymology Unknown.
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A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!
gee
noun
Etymology From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).
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The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.
The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
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I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
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Abbreviation, Slang Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
ten gees
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, PhysicsAbbreviation Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:
So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can.1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449:
Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:
That will just "gee".1867, W.H. Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including some more especially military and scientific, but useful to seamen; as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc. by the late ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.:
gee
noun
/ɡiː/
Etymology Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).
The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:
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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.1992, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:
And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:
And good old Holmes delivered his soul on the walk home of many wise sayings, and, as the song says, "Gee'd 'em a sight of good advice;" […]1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days: