Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used as a mild expletive or exclamation, as of surprise, enthusiasm, or sympathy.
- noun A unit of acceleration equal to 9.80665 meters (32.174 feet) per second per second, approximating the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface.
- noun The letter g.
- interjection Used to command an animal pulling a load to turn to the right.
- intransitive verb To turn to the right.
- noun A thousand dollars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To agree; suit; fit.
- To move to one side; in particular, to move or turn to the off side, or from the driver—that is, to the right, the driver standing on the left or nigh side: used by teamsters, chiefly in the imperative, addressed to the animals they are driving: often with off.
- To move; stir.
- To cause to move or turn to the off side, or from the driver: as, to
gee a team of oxen. - To move: as, ye′ re no able to gee it.
- noun Stubbornness; pettishness.
- noun An affront.
- A dialectal form of
give . - Crooked; awry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
- intransitive verb Colloq. or Prov. Eng. To agree; to harmonize.
- intransitive verb To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with
off , by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed tohaw , orhoi . - intransitive verb Same as
Gee .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To turn right or to cause to turn right.
- noun The name of the
Latin script letterG /g . - noun slang Abbreviation of
grand ; athousand dollars . - noun physics Abbreviation of
gravity ; theunit ofacceleration equal to that exerted bygravity at the earth's surface. - noun US, slang A
guy . - interjection A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn to the right side
- verb give a command to a horse to turn to the right side
- noun a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_Gee_ often includes the pronoun, thus, "I'll gee" means I'll give you; the _gee_, and _ye_ for _you_, combining into _gee_.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Written By martin gee on April 1st, 2009 @ 2: 29 pm
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Well gee is it just me or does that sound like just common sense? shouldn't that have always been the procedure?
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Written By martin gee on March 31st, 2009 @ 11: 29 pm
Tron sequel may be called Tron; Hollywood may have a brain 2009
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I loved the way she talked about Todd not being a registered Republican – gee, is he still with that Alaska Separatist party?
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010
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Written By martin gee on March 27th, 2009 @ 5: 01 pm
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Well gee is it just me or does that sounds like just common sense? shouldn't that have always been the procedure?
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Written By martin gee on March 12th, 2009 @ 2: 01 pm
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This was my third visit to the New York Comic Con, which, gee, is in its third year.
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This was my third visit to the New York Comic Con, which, gee, is in its third year.
New York Comic Con 2008 Fan Film Panel Wrap-Up | Fan Cinema Today 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gee
"The first two took the wrong, short route around the corner and over the log. My dogs made as if to follow them. I stamped hard on the brake.
"'Gee!' I shouted. The dogs looked around, confused.
"'Gee!' I shouted again, and eased off the brake a little. The dogs nudged forward, straight on.
"I stopped them again. 'Gee!' I hollered. Ichabod looked around and wagged his tail. I took my foot slightly off the brake once more. Again, they headed straight on.
"'Gee!' I shouted again. The Japanese woman turned around and looked at me as though I were mad.
"'Gee!' I hollered in vain. In the end, we had been there too long. Frank and the others would be sitting waiting on the river, wondering what on earth could have happened to us in that short distance. And so I abandoned my hopes for perfection and took the shortcut over the log.
"'Oh, Ichabod, he doesn't know the commands,' Frank told me later. 'He's just young. I only put him in front because it's the only place he can't chew everything. And I put Klukshu alongside because he's the only one that'll put up with him.'"
--Polly Evans, Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman: Travels with Sled Dogs in Canada's Frozen North (NY: Bantam Dell, 2008), 70
January 25, 2017