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gee

/d͡ʒiː/

gee interjection: a general exclamation of surprise or frustration. Also the abbreviation of grand.

Interjection (1)

  1. (dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
    • Gee, I didn't know that!
    • Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

Verb (1)

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

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, dialectal, obsolete) To 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
    • 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

Noun (1)

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

gee (plural gees)

  1. A gee-gee, a horse.
    • You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 318

Interjection (2)

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

  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!

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

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.
    • 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
  2. (US, slang) A 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

Noun (3)

IPA/ɡiː/

gee (plural gees)

  1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
    • The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk
    • 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

Verb (2)

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

Verb (3)

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

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To 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

Proper noun capitalized: Gee

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

Gee

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

Noun (4) capitalized: Gee

IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/

Gee (plural Gees)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of gee.

Also used as

gee is also the abbreviation of grand.

gee is also the abbreviation of gravity.

gee meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

gee in Hindi

name of the letter G, g
जी jī

gee in Marathi

name of the letter G, g
जी jī

gee in Bengali

name of the letter G, g
জি ji

gee in Telugu

గీ
More languagesFewer languages
gee in Tagalog
dyi
gee in Arabic
غِي ḡī, جِي jī
gee in Malay
ji
gee in Indonesian
kok, ge
gee in Thai
จี jii
gee in Vietnamese
trời, giê, gờ, ghê
gee in Myanmar
ဂျီ gyi

Examples of gee in a sentence

  • And the Americans, too! / John Kent (Randolph Scott): Gee, that's swell.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.2017 May 18, Mickey Rapkin, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the Studio”...
  • 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:
  • 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:

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Synonyms of gee

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Forms of gee

Verb
third-person singular presentgees
present participlegeeing
past participlegeed
pastgeed
Noun
pluralgees
pluralGees

Past tense of gee: geed

Plural of gee: gees

Origin of gee

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

Unknown.

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

Words formed from gee

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Words that rhyme with gee

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Questions about gee

What does gee mean?
Gee means a general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
What is gee in Hindi?
Gee in Hindi is जी (jī). See Gee meaning in Hindi.
How do you use gee in a sentence?
And the Americans, too! / John Kent (Randolph Scott): Gee, that's swell.
What part of speech is gee?
Gee can be an interjection, a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gee?
Gee is pronounced /d͡ʒiː/.

Words near gee in the dictionary

  1. geds
  2. Gedser
  3. gedunk
  4. gedunks
  5. gedup
  6. gee
  7. gee along
  8. gee and haw
  9. gee back
  10. gee haw whammy diddle
  11. gee haw whammy diddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gee (page history and authors); Gee (page history and authors); gee (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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