gee — Englisches Wörterbuch

Interjektion

1. A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Gebrauch

   • veraltend

   Beispiele

   Gee, I didn't know that!

   Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   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.

   Every night when I start to sing that song, I think, “Gee, what a song. What a moment.”

Verb

1. Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.

2. To cause an animal to move in this way.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.

3. To agree; to harmonize.

   Gebrauch

   • britischer Gebrauch
   • dialectal
   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know.

   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.

Substantiv

1. A gee-gee, a horse.

   Beispiele

   You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee

Interjektion

1. A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.

   Beispiele

   Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!

Substantiv

1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g.

   Beispiele

   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.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

2. A guy.

   Gebrauch

   • US-amerikanischer Gebrauch
   • Slang

   Beispiele

   Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.

Substantiv

1. Vagina, vulva.

   Gebrauch

   • Ireland
   • Slang

   Beispiele

   The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?

   But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   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.

   And I thought, gee is certainly something that gobshite knows all about.

Verb

1. To suit or fit.

   Beispiele

   That will just "gee".

Verb

1. To give.

   Gebrauch

   • dialectal
   • außer Gebrauch

   Verwandte Wörter

   gee-eyedskew-geesquill-gee

   Beispiele

   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;" […]

Substantiv

1. a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated

   Synonyme

   gg-force

   Oberbegriffe

   force unit

Verb

1. turn to the right side

   Oberbegriffe

   turn

   Beispiele

   the horse geed

2. give a command to a horse to turn to the right side

   Oberbegriffe

   exclaimcrycry outoutcrycall outshout