gee

1. datedA general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Gee, I didn't know that!

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   Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

   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

   Synonyms: adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora

present singular third person gees · participle present geeing · participle past geed · past geed

1. intransitiveOf 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. transitiveTo 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. UKdialectalobsoleteTo agree; to harmonize.

   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

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   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

plural gees

1. A gee-gee, a horse.

   You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee

   1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 318

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!

plural gees

1. 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.

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   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

   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

2. abbreviationslangAbbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.

   ten gees

3. abbreviationnatural sciencesAbbreviation 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

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   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

4. USslangA guy.

   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

plural gees

1. IrelandslangVagina, vulva.

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

   1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk

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   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

   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

present singular third person gees · participle present geeing · participle past geed · past geed

1. To suit or fit.

   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.

present singular third person gees · participle present geeing · participle past geed · past geed

1. dialectalobsoleteTo give.

   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

1. A surname.

   Prosecutors allege that Gee posted several videos online following Biden’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, in April for a campaign event.

   2024 May 16, Casey Gannon, “Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Biden in online video”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 May 2025

2. rareA male given name.
3. An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States.
4. A ghost town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.

plural Gees

1. Alternative letter-case form of gee.