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# gee

«gee» in Mova's school dictionary: **a word showing surprise, delight or mild annoyance, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

interjection (gee — informal, mostly US); verb (gee up — UK, to a horse)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, US) Gee is a word showing surprise, delight or mild annoyance, like "wow" or "oh". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#m1)

2) "Gee up" is what riders say to make a horse go faster; (UK, informal) to gee someone up means to encourage them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#m2)

3) Gee is the name of the letter G. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday North American talk and in old films and comics: "Gee, thanks!" "Gee whiz!" A mild polite exclamation that children may say. Phrases: gee whiz, gee thanks, gee up.

### examples

- Gee, that's a big dog! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x1)
- "Gee, thanks for the present!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x2)
- Gee whiz, look at all that snow! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x3)
- "Gee up!" shouted the farmer to his horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x4)
- The coach geed the team up at half-time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x5)
- Gee, I wish I could come too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x6)
- "Gee up! gee up!" he cried; "now we've got him!" But here a stream crossed the road, and the stag plunged into the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/#x7)

### note

Informal; not for formal writing. It is a mild word that started as a polite way to avoid saying "Jesus". Do not confuse with "ghee" (butter used in Indian cooking) or "g" (grams).

### In the corpora

- ["Gee" is a mild word used instead of "Jesus"; it is mostly American.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.