English
gee
see also: Gee
Pronunciation Interjection
  1. A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
    Gee, I didn't know that!
    Gee, this is swell fun!
Synonyms
  • (exclamation of surprise) seeSynonyms en
Translations Pronunciation Verb

gee (gees, present participle geeing; past and past participle geed)

  1. (intransitive) Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move#Verb|move forward; go faster; or turn#Verb|turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
    This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.
  2. (intransitive) 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.
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
  1. A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn#Verb|turn to the right”.
    Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!
Pronunciation 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#English|grand; a thousand dollars.
    ten gees
  3. (physics) Abbreviation of gravity#English|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
  • French: gé
  • Italian: gi
  • Portuguese: gê
  • Russian: джи
  • Spanish: ge
Translations
  • Russian: коса́рь
Pronunciation 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 (novel), p. 65. Secker & Warburg ISBN 0-436-20052-X:
      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 978-0714542133:
      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 978-0413699909:
      And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.
Pronunciation Verb

gee (gees, present participle geeing; past and past participle geed)

  1. To suit or fit
Gee
Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. (rare) A male given name.


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