gee!とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒiː/
• 韻: -iː

間投詞

gee

1. (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow

   Gee, I didn't know that!

   Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

   • 1935, Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, Allan Scott (screenplay), Roberta (motion picture), RKO Pictures:

     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.

   • 2017 May 18, Mickey Rapkin, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the Studio”, in billboard.com‎:

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

使用する際の注意点

Gee is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on an air of youthful innocence.

派生語

語源 2

Unknown.

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• 韻: -iː

動詞

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, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
   • 1918, Mary Stanbery Watts, The Boardman Family, page 342:

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

   • 1968, Rex Stout, The Father Hunt:

     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.

等位語

• haw

派生語

名詞

gee (plural gees)

1. A gee-gee, a horse.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, [Arthur Sullivan, composer], “The Pirates of Penzance […] ”, in Original Plays, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 318:

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

間投詞

gee

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!

語源 3

From 中期英語, from 古期英語 ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiː/
• 韻: -iː

名詞

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.

   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     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. (slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.

   ten gees

3. (physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
   • 1949 July, Margaret St. Clair, “Sacred Martian Pig”, in Startling Stories, page 92:

     I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.

   • 1987, Tom Clancy, Patriot Games, page 449:

     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.

4. (US, slang) A guy.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:

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

派生語

関連する語

• gay (in shorthand)

参考

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

語源 4

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

発音

• IPA: /ɡiː/
• Homophone: ghee
• 韻: -iː

名詞

gee (plural gees)

1. (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
   • 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:

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

   • 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, . Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 65:

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

   • 1992, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, . John Calder, →ISBN, page 71:

     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.

   • 1995, Joseph O'Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, . Methuen, →ISBN, page 7:

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

語源 5

Unknown.

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒiː/
• 韻: -iː

動詞

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

1. To suit or fit.
   • 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.:

     That will just "gee".

参考

• gee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 6

動詞

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

1. (obsolete, dialect) To give.
   • 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,
     "Gee'd 'em a sight of good advice;" […]

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参考

アナグラム

• EEG

副詞

ġee

1. alternative form of ġēa