geez
/d͡ʒiːz/
geez interjection: an exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
Interjection
- An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
- Geez, that was one heck of a week.
- Oh gawsh, oh geez, I know our girl Betty [White] is always so surprised when she gets an award and outpouring of adulation, so I'm ready for her to surprise us back.2012 August 1, Megan Angelo, “6 Good-Girl Actresses We Really Wanna See Go Dark”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 29 May 2020
- Synonyms:
- sheesh, adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart
Noun
IPA/ɡiːz/
geez
- Informal address to a male.
- Hi geez, you alright?
Proper noun capitalized: Geez
Geez
- Alternative form of Ge'ez.
geez meaning in Bengali and Telugu
geez in Bengali
- গিজ
geez in Telugu
- గీజ్
Synonyms of geez
- sheesh
- ay
- caramba
- mirabile dictu
- chihuahua
- bleeding heck
- bleeding Nora
- bless my heart
- bless my soul
- bless us
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- blige
- 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
Forms of geez
| alternative form | geeze |
|---|---|
| alternative form | jeez |
| alternative form | jeeze |
Origin of geez
A minced oath from the word Jesus.
Clipping of geezer.
Words formed from geez
Words that rhyme with geez
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about geez
- What does geez mean?
- Geez means an exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
- What is geez in Bengali?
- Geez in Bengali is গিজ. See Geez meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is geez?
- Geez can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce geez?
- Geez is pronounced /d͡ʒiːz/.
Words near geez in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: geez (page history and authors); Geez (page history and authors); geez (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); geez (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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