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gee

intj · name · noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /d͡ʒiː/
  • rhymes with -iː
  • /ˈd͡ʒiː/
  • /ˈɡiː/
  • /ɡiː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: ghee
  • CMU ARPABET: JH IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

Examples

  • Gee, I didn't know that!
  • Gee, you didn't have to kick me!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige, blimey, bloody hell, bloody Nora, blow me, blow me backwards, blow me down, blow me over, blow me pink, blow me tight, blow me up, blow my buttons, 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, byrlady, 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, cor blimey, cor lummy, cowabunga, crikey, criminy, cripes, crivvens, chuffing hell, dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora, flipping heck, flipping Nora, fuark, fuck me, fucking hell, fucking Nora, gad so, Gadsbodikins, gadsbud, gadzooks, gaw, gee, gee whiz, gee willikers, geeminy, geez, geez Louise, geshmak, get out of town, glory be, God Almighty, God in heaven, God's teeth, good golly, golly, golly gee willikers, golly gosh, good God, good gracious, good gravy, good grief, good heavens, good Lord, goodness, goodness gracious, goodness gracious me, goodness me, googly-moogly, gorblimey, Gordon Bennett, gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great balls of fire, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great googly moogly, great Scott, gyatt, hallo, hello, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hey, heyday, hold up, holy buckets, holy cannoli, holy cow, holy crap, holy crap on a cracker, holy cricket, holy crickets, holy crud, holy dignity, holy doodle, holy fuck, holy fuck knuckles, holy fudge, holy guacamole, holy Hannah, holy hell, holy kamoley, holy kamoly, holy macaroni, holy mackerel, holy magnum, holy moley, holy moly, holy man, holy Moses, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, holy ravioli, holy shit, holy stromboli, holy smoke, holy Toledo, hooly dooly, hot damn, I'll be, I'll be a dirty bird!, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'll be a son of a gun, I'll be blowed, I'll be bound, I'll be buggered, I'll be damned, I'll be danged, I'll be darned, I'll be dashed, I'll be dipped, I'll be dipped in shit, I'll be hanged, I'll be hornswoggled, I'll be jiggered, I'll be shot, imagine that, I'm blowed, I say, Janey Mack, Jaysus, Jeebus, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps, jeezy-peezy, Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus fuck, Jesus H. Christ, Mary and Joseph, Jesus Murphy, Jiminy Cricket, jings, jinkies, Judas Priest, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, Jupiter, knock me down with a feather, knock me over with a feather, land sakes, lauks, lawks, lawks a-mercy, lawl, leapin' lizards, Lord, Lord be praised, Lord love a duck, lordy, mama mia, mamma mia, man alive, mercy sakes, Mother of God, mother of Pearl, my, my conscience, my giddy aunt, my heavens, my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle, my God, my goodness, my gosh, my Lord, my my, my word, no way, O gemini, ods bodikin, odsfish, odzookens, oh, oh em gee, ohmigod, oh my, oh my days, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my goodness, oh my goodness gracious, oh my gosh, oh my hell, oh my heck, oh my fuck, oh my life, oh my Lord, oh my stars, oh my word, oi, OMG, omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah, ruddy hell, ruddy Nora, sacré bleu, sakes alive, 'sblood, 'sdeath, shart, 'sheart, sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora, shiver my timbers, shut my mouth, shut the front door, slap my ass and call me Judy, slap my ass and call me Sally, snakes alive, sodding hell, son of a gun, stone me, stone the crows, strewth, strike me pink, 'struth, suffering centipedes, suffering Moses, suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet Mary, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, waow, well, I never, what, what do you know, whoa, whoah, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, you don't say, yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, ZOMG, ZOMFG, zooterkins, zound, zounds, zowie

Antonyms: none provided

2

intj

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A male given name.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

A ghost town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A gee-gee, a horse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The name of the Latin script letter G/g.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, slang

Examples

  • ten gees

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of

Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A guy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Vagina, vulva.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ireland, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Alternative letter-case form of gee.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To cause an animal to move in this way.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To agree; to harmonize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To suit or fit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To give.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: g, g-force

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: force unit

20

verb

Meaning 20

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shout

21

verb

Meaning 21

turn to the right side

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the horse geed

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: turn

History

Etymology

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

Unknown.

Northern English surname of debated meaning.

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

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

Across languages

Translations

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: леле (lele) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Bulgarian: ах (ah) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Dutch: goh — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Dutch: gut — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Finnish: jukra — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Finnish: hitsi — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Finnish: voi hurja — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Georgian: ვა (va) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Georgian: ღმერთო (ɣmerto) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Indonesian: kok — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Italian: cribbio — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Italian: perbacco — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Italian: alla faccia — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Italian: osteria — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Louisiana Creole: bòys — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Louisiana Creole: boug — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Macedonian: ле́ле (léle) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Macedonian: бо́же (bóže) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Māori: ānana — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Māori: aeha — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Māori: ēhe — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Māori: wī — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Māori: anana — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Portuguese: ena! — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Portuguese: ena pá! — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Portuguese: xi! — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Russian: бо́же (bóže) — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Spanish: vaya — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Swedish: kors — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Swedish: oj — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Swedish: jösses — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Vietnamese: trời — exclamation of surprise or pleasure
  • Arabic: غِي (ḡī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Arabic: جِي (jī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Arabic: جِي (gī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Asturian: gue — name of the letter G, g
  • Bengali: জি (ji) — name of the letter G, g
  • Bulgarian: ге (ge) — name of the letter G, g
  • Burmese: ဂျီ (gyi) — name of the letter G, g
  • Catalan: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Dutch: gee — name of the letter G, g
  • Esperanto: go — name of the letter G, g
  • Finnish: gee — name of the letter G, g
  • French: gé — name of the letter G, g
  • Galician: gue — name of the letter G, g
  • Greek: τζι (tzi) — name of the letter G, g
  • Hawaiian: gā — name of the letter G, g
  • Hindi: जी (jī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Hungarian: gé — name of the letter G, g
  • Icelandic: gé — name of the letter G, g
  • Ido: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Indonesian: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Irish: gé — name of the letter G, g
  • Irish: gort — name of the letter G, g
  • Italian: gi — name of the letter G, g
  • Japanese: ジー (jī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Korean: 지 (ji) — name of the letter G, g
  • Latin: gē — name of the letter G, g
  • Latvian: gā — name of the letter G, g
  • Lithuanian: gė — name of the letter G, g
  • Malay: ji — name of the letter G, g
  • Marathi: जी (jī) — name of the letter G, g
  • Occitan: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Portuguese: gê — name of the letter G, g
  • Russian: джи (dži) — name of the letter G, g
  • Russian: жэ (žɛ) — name of the letter G, g
  • Russian: гэ (gɛ) — name of the letter G, g
  • Spanish: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Tagalog: dyi — name of the letter G, g
  • Thai: จี (jii) — name of the letter G, g
  • Turkish: ge — name of the letter G, g
  • Vietnamese: giê — name of the letter G, g
  • Vietnamese: gờ — name of the letter G, g
  • Vietnamese: ghê — name of the letter G, g
  • Welsh: èg — name of the letter G, g
  • Finnish: tonni — slang: a thousand dollars
  • Russian: коса́рь (kosárʹ) — slang: a thousand dollars
  • Finnish: G — the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity
  • Galician: G — the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity
  • Czech: hot — to turn away from the driver
  • French: hue — to turn away from the driver
  • German: hott — to turn away from the driver
  • Romanian: cea — to turn away from the driver
  • Bulgarian: but see чиба (čiba) — to cause an animal to move away