gee

Etymology 1

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

intj

1. (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
   Gee, I didn't know that!
   Gee, this is swell fun!
   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. 1935, Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures

Etymology 2

Unknown.

verb

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, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
   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. A gee-gee, a horse.

intj

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!

Etymology 3

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

noun

1. The name of the Latin-script letter 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
   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
2. (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
   ten gees
3. (physics) Abbreviation of gravity">gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity">gravity at the earth's surface.
   I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth. 1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92
   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. 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449
4. (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

Etymology 4

Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).

noun

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, page 65
   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, page 71
   And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about. 1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, page 7

Etymology 5

Unknown.

verb

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 voyagers, etc. by the late ADMIRAL W. H. SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c.