gee

See also: Gee, GEE, and gée

English

Etymology 1

A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Interjection

gee

1. (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow

   Gee, I didn't know that!

   Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

   • 1935, Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures:

     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.

   • 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^[2], archived from the original on 2 October 2026:

     Every night when I start to sing that song, I think, “Gee, what a song. What a moment.”

Usage notes

Gee is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic or sarcastic effect, with the speaker putting on an air of youthful innocence.

Derived terms

• gee whillikers, gee willikers, gee willickers, gee whillikins, gee whillickers, gee whilligers
• gee whittakers
• gee whiz
• golly gee
• hully gee

Translations

exclamation of surprise or pleasure

• Bulgarian: леле (lele), ах (ah)
• Dutch: goh (nl), gut (nl)
• Finnish: jukra (fi), hitsi (fi), voi hurja
• Georgian: ვა (va), ღმერთო (ɣmerto)
• Indonesian: kok (id)
• Italian: cribbio (it), perbacco (it), alla faccia (it), osteria (it)
• Louisiana Creole: bòys, boug
• Macedonian: ле́ле (mk) (léle), бо́же (bóže)
• Māori: ānana, aeha, ēhe, wī, anana
• Portuguese: ena!, ena pá!, eia!, xi! (pt)
• Russian: бо́же (ru) (bóže)
• Spanish: vaya (es)
• Swedish: kors (sv), oj (sv), jösses (sv)
• Vietnamese: trời (vi)

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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.

   This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.

2. (transitive) To cause an animal to move in this way.

   You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.

3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
   • 1918, Mary Stanbery Watts, The Boardman Family, page 342:

     It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.

   • 1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• haw

Derived terms

• agee
• gee along
• gee and haw
• gee back
• gee haw whammy diddle
• gee haw whimmy diddle
• gee pole
• geepound
• gee up
• haw and gee
• milligee

Translations

to turn away from the driver

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: hot (cs)
• French: hue (fr)
• German: hott (de)
• Romanian: cea (ro)

to cause an animal to move away

• Bulgarian: no equivalent term in Bulgarian, but see чиба (bg) (čiba)

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. A gee-gee, a horse.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 318:

     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”.

   Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

gee (plural gees)

2. 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.

   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     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.

3. (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.

   ten gees

4. (physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
   • 1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:

     I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.

   • 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449:

     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.

5. (US, slang) A guy.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:

     Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.

Derived terms

• agee
• GeeDubs
• geepound
• high-gee
• jaygee
• low-gee
• milligee
• Oh Em Gee, oh em gee, oh-em-gee
• zero gee, zero-gee

Related terms

• gay (in shorthand)

Translations

name of the letter G, g

• Arabic: غِي m (ḡī), جِي m (jī), جِي m (gī)
• Asturian: gue (ast)
• Bengali: জি (bn) (ji)
• Bulgarian: ге n (ge)
• Burmese: ဂျီ (gyi)
• Catalan: ge (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Dutch: gee (nl)
• Esperanto: go (eo)
• Finnish: gee (fi)
• French: gé (fr) m
• Galician: gue (gl) m
• Greek: τζι n (tzi)
• Hawaiian: gā
• Hindi: जी (hi) (jī)
• Hungarian: gé (hu)
• Icelandic: gé
• Ido: ge (io)
• Indonesian: ge (id)
• Irish: gé (ga), gort
• Italian: gi (it) f
• Japanese: ジー (ja) (jī)
• Korean: 지 (ko) (ji)
• Latin: gē (la)
• Latvian: gā
• Lithuanian: gė
• Malay: ji
• Marathi: जी (jī)
• Occitan: ge f
• Portuguese: gê (pt) m
• Russian: джи (ru) n (dži) (English), жэ n (žɛ), гэ (ru) n (gɛ)
• Spanish: ge (es) f
• Tagalog: dyi
• Thai: จี (th) (jii)
• Turkish: ge (tr)
• Vietnamese: giê (vi), gờ (vi), ghê (vi)
• Welsh: èg f

slang: a thousand dollars

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tonni (fi)
• Russian: коса́рь (ru) m (kosárʹ)

the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: G (fi)
• Galician: G (gl)

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

Etymology 4

Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: ghee
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

gee (plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
   • 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:

     The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?

   • 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:

     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, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:

     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, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:

     And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

Etymology 5

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)

1. To suit or fit.
   • 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.:

     That will just "gee".

See also

• gee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 6

Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)

1. (obsolete, dialect) To give.
   • 1857, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     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;" […]

See also

• gee-eyed
• skew-gee
• squill-gee

Anagrams

• EEG

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː/ [ˈɡeː]
• Hyphenation: gee

Verb

gée (autobenefactive geyité)

1. (transitive) find
2. (transitive) recover
3. (transitive) get, obtain

Conjugation

Conjugation of gee (type II verb)
		1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular		1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
				m	f
perfective	V-affirmative	géeh	geytéh	géeh	geytéh	geynéh	geyteeníh	geeníh
	N-affirmative	gée	geyté	gée	geyté	geyné	geytén	géen
	negative	mágeyinniyo	mágeyinnito	mágeyinna	mágeyinna	mágeyinnino	mágeyinniton	mágeyinnon
imperfective	V-affirmative	geyáh	geytáh	geyáh	geytáh	geynáh	geytaanáh	geyaanáh
	N-affirmative	geyá	geytá	geyá	geytá	geyná	geytán	geyán
	negative	mágeya	mágeyta	mágeya	mágeyta	mágeyna	mágeytan	mágeyan
prospective	V-affirmative	géeliyoh géeyyoh	géelitoh géettoh	géeleh	géeleh	géelinoh géennoh	géelitoonuh géettoonuh	géeloonuh
	N-affirmative	géeliyo géeyyo	géelito géetto	géele	géele	géelino géenno	géeliton géetton	géelon
conjunctive I	V-affirmative	géyuh	géyuh	géyuh	géyuh	géyuh	geytóonuh	geyóonuh
	N-affirmative	géyu	géyu	géyu	géyu	géyu	geytón	geyón
	negative	gée wáyuh	gée wáytuh	gée wáyuh	gée wáytuh	gée wáynuh	gée waytóonuh	gée wóonuh
conjunctive II	V-affirmative	geyánkeh	geytánkeh	geyánkeh	geytánkeh	geynánkeh	geytaanánkeh	geyaanánkeh
	N-affirmative	geyánke	geytánke	geyánke	geytánke	geynánke	geytaanánke	geyaanánke
	negative	gée wáankeh	gée waytánkeh	gée wáankeh	gée waytánkeh	gée waynánkeh	gée waytaanánkeh	gée wáankeh
jussive	affirmative	géyay	géyay	géyay	géyay	géyay	geytóonay	geyóonay
	negative	gée wáay	gée wáytay	gée wáay	gée wáytay	gée wáynay	gée waytóonay	gée wóonay
past conditional	affirmative	geyinniyóy	geyinnitóy	geyinnáy	geyinnáy	geyinninóy	geyinnitoonúy	geyinnoonúy
	negative	gée wanniyóy	gée wannitóy	gée wannáy	gée wannáy	gée wanninóy	gée wannitoonúy	gée wanninoonúy
present conditional I	affirmative	géek	geyték	géek	geyték	geynék	geyteeník	geeník
	negative	gée wéek	gée wayték	gée wéek	gée wayték	gée waynék	gée wayteeník	gée weeník
		singular	plural			singular	plural
consultative	affirmative	geyóo	geynóo	imperative	affirmative	géy	géya
	negative	mageyóo	mageynóo		negative	mágeyin	mágeyina
-h converb	-i form	-k converb	-in(n)uh converb	-innuk converb	infinitive	indefinite participle
						V-focus	N-focus
géyah	géyi	géyak	geyínnuh	geyínnuk	geyíyya	geyináanih	geyináan
Compound tenses dependent verb sequential perfective + -m simultaneous imperfective + -m past perfect affirmative perfective + perfective of én or sugé present perfect affirmative perfective + imperfective of én future perfect affirmative perfective + prospective of sugé past progressive -k converb + imperfective of én or sugé present progressive affirmative imperfect + imperfective of én future progressive -k converb + prospective of sugé immediate future affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of wée imperfect potential I affirmative conjunctive I + imperfective of takké imperfect potential II affirmative imperfective + -m + takké negative gée + imperfective of wée + -m + takké perfect potential affirmative perfective + -m + takké negative gée + perfective of wée + -m + takké present conditional II affirmative imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék negative gée + perfective of wée + object pronoun + tekkék perfect conditional affirmative perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k negative perfective + sugé + imperfective of wée -k irrealis gée + perfective of xaaxé or raaré

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “gee”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-

Proto-Germanic *gebaną

Proto-West Germanic *geban

Old Dutch gevan

Middle Dutch gēven

Dutch geven

Afrikaans gee

Inherited from Dutch geven, from Middle Dutch gēven, from Old Dutch gevan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χɪə/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

gee (present gee, present participle gewende, past participle gegee)

1. to give

   Ek gee op! ― I give up!

Alemannic German

Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present git, past participle gee)

1. alternative form of gäh

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Verb

gee

1. to give

Estonian

Noun

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

1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin gē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeː/, [ˈɡe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): gee
• Hyphenation^(key): gee

Noun

gee

1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.
2. (physics) gee (unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity)

Declension

Inflection of gee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		gee	geet
genitive		geen	geiden geitten
partitive		geetä	geitä
illative		geehen	geihin
		singular	plural
nominative		gee	geet
accusative	nom.	gee	geet
	gen.	geen
genitive		geen	geiden geitten
partitive		geetä	geitä
inessive		geessä	geissä
elative		geestä	geistä
illative		geehen	geihin
adessive		geellä	geillä
ablative		geeltä	geiltä
allative		geelle	geille
essive		geenä	geinä
translative		geeksi	geiksi
abessive		geettä	geittä
instructive		—	gein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of gee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative geeni geeni accusative nom. geeni geeni gen. geeni genitive geeni geideni geitteni partitive geetäni geitäni inessive geessäni geissäni elative geestäni geistäni illative geeheni geihini adessive geelläni geilläni ablative geeltäni geiltäni allative geelleni geilleni essive geenäni geinäni translative geekseni geikseni abessive geettäni geittäni instructive — — comitative — geineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative geesi geesi accusative nom. geesi geesi gen. geesi genitive geesi geidesi geittesi partitive geetäsi geitäsi inessive geessäsi geissäsi elative geestäsi geistäsi illative geehesi geihisi adessive geelläsi geilläsi ablative geeltäsi geiltäsi allative geellesi geillesi essive geenäsi geinäsi translative geeksesi geiksesi abessive geettäsi geittäsi instructive — — comitative — geinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative geemme geemme accusative nom. geemme geemme gen. geemme genitive geemme geidemme geittemme partitive geetämme geitämme inessive geessämme geissämme elative geestämme geistämme illative geehemme geihimme adessive geellämme geillämme ablative geeltämme geiltämme allative geellemme geillemme essive geenämme geinämme translative geeksemme geiksemme abessive geettämme geittämme instructive — — comitative — geinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative geenne geenne accusative nom. geenne geenne gen. geenne genitive geenne geidenne geittenne partitive geetänne geitänne inessive geessänne geissänne elative geestänne geistänne illative geehenne geihinne adessive geellänne geillänne ablative geeltänne geiltänne allative geellenne geillenne essive geenänne geinänne translative geeksenne geiksenne abessive geettänne geittänne instructive — — comitative — geinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative geensä geensä accusative nom. geensä geensä gen. geensä genitive geensä geidensä geittensä partitive geetään geetänsä geitään geitänsä inessive geessään geessänsä geissään geissänsä elative geestään geestänsä geistään geistänsä illative geehensä geihinsä adessive geellään geellänsä geillään geillänsä ablative geeltään geeltänsä geiltään geiltänsä allative geelleen geellensä geilleen geillensä essive geenään geenänsä geinään geinänsä translative geekseen geeksensä geikseen geiksensä abessive geettään geettänsä geittään geittänsä instructive — — comitative — geineen geinensä

Anagrams

• ege

Manx

Verb

gee

1. present participle of ee

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeː/

Adverb

ġee

1. alternative form of ġēa

Võro

Noun

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

1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Woiwurrung

Article

gee

1. the

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gẹ̄ven. Doublet of yie. Cognate with Scots gie (“give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiː/

Verb

gee (third-person singular gees, simple past gae, past participle gien)

1. to give

Derived terms

• gu es (“give us”)
• haoleghey
• t'gie

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41