gee
/d͡ʒiː/
gee interjection: a general exclamation of surprise or frustration. Also the abbreviation of grand.
Interjection (1)
- A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
- Gee, I didn't know that!
- Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
- Synonyms:
- adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul
Verb (1)
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/
gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
Interjection (2)
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/
Noun (2)
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/
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.
- 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
- 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)
Verb (2)
gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
Verb (3)
gee (third-person singular simple present gees, present participle geeing, simple past and past participle geed)
- 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
- And good old Holmes delivered his soul on the walk home of many wise sayings, and, as the song says,
Proper noun capitalized: Gee
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/
Gee
- 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
- A male given name.
- An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States.
- A ghost town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.
Noun (4) capitalized: Gee
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiː/
Gee (plural Gees)
- 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
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:
Synonyms of gee
- ay
- caramba
- mirabile dictu
- chihuahua
- bleeding heck
- bleeding Nora
- bless my heart
- bless my soul
- bless us
- blige
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- blimey
- bloody hell
- bloody Nora
- blow me down
- butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- by all that is holy
- by Allah
- by cracky
- by George
- by God
- by golly
- by gosh
- by gum
- by gummy
- by jingo
- by Jove
- by juckies
- by Jupiter
- by thunder
- by the living jingo
- Christ
- Christ alive
- Christ almighty
- Christ on a bike
- Christ on a cracker
- Christ on a raft
- Christ on a stick
- Christ on a crutch
- coo
- cor
Forms of gee
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gees |
| present participle | geeing |
| past participle | geed |
| past | geed |
| Noun | |
| plural | gees |
| plural | 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
- gee whillikers
- gee willikers
- gee willickers
- gee whillikins
- gee whillickers
- gee whilligers
- gee whittakers
- gee whiz
- golly gee
- hully gee
- agee
- geepound
- milligee
- gee along
- gee and haw
- gee back
- gee haw whammy diddle
- gee haw whimmy diddle
- gee pole
- gee up
- haw and gee
- GeeDubs
- high-gee
- jaygee
- low-gee
- Oh Em Gee
- oh-em-gee
- zero gee
- zero-gee
Phrases with gee
Words that rhyme with gee
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
Source and license
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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