# gee
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Interjection

gee
* (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow
    Gee, I didn't know that!
    Gee, this is swell fun!
** 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.

##### Usage notes

Gee is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic 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
* oh em gee

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Unknown.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
* (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.
* (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.
* (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 haw whammy diddle
* gee haw whimmy diddle
* gee pole
* geepound
* gee up
* haw and gee
* milligee

##### Translations
#### Noun

gee (plural gees)
* A gee-gee, a horse.
** 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Act I”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

#### Interjection

gee
* 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: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Noun

gee (plural gees)
* 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.
* (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
    ten gees
* (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.
* (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
#### 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: /ɡiː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophone: ghee
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Noun

gee (plural gees)
* (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: /d͡ʒiː/
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
* 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)
* (obsolete, dialect) To give.
** 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days: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;" […]

### References

* ↑ Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor (2006) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English‎, →ISBN, page 850

### See also

* gee-eyed
* skew-gee
* squill-gee

### Anagrams

* EEG

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡeː/ [ˈɡeː]
* Hyphenation: gee

### Verb

gée (autobenefactive geyité)
* (transitive) find
* (transitive) recover
* (transitive) get, obtain

#### Conjugation
### 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch geven.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /χɪə/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gee (present gee, present participle gewende, past participle gegee)
* to give
    Ek gee op! ― I give up!

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* geh

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡ̊eː/
* Rhymes: -eː

### Verb

gee (third-person singular simple present git, past participle gee, auxiliary haa) (Switzerland)
* (ditransitive) to give (in various senses)
* (impersonal, transitive) Used to indicate that something exists. Usually translated as there is/are or there exist(s)
    Synonym: haa
    So öppis gits nume doo! ― Something like this only exists here. (literally, “Something like this it gives only here.”)

## Estonian
### Noun

gee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin gē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡeː/, [ˈɡe̞ː]
* Rhymes: -eː
* Hyphenation: gee

### Noun

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

#### Declension

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
* present participle of ee

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jeː/

### Adverb

ġee
* Alternative form of ġēa

## Võro
### Noun

gee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
* The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

## Yola
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡiː/

### Verb

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