gee-gee
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of gee (“a command to an animal to move forward, go faster, or turn right”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdʒiːˌdʒiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdʒiˌdʒi/
- Hyphenation: gee‧gee
- Homophone: GG
Noun
[edit]- (colloquial, usually childish) A horse.
- 1860 April 14, “The Bateman Household, and What Became of Them”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume XIII, number 328, London: W. & R. Chambers 47 Paternoster Row and High Street Edinburgh, →OCLC, chapter XXIV (The Best of the Household), page 236:
- [W]hen great Aunt Ryder was exhausted with carrying her little nephews pick-a-back, Aunt Ellen was always willing to become a ‘gee-gee’ or riding-horse in her place, although certainly one of no very prancing and fiery temperament.
- 2015, E. Maud Graham, “End of the Camp Life”, in Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen, editors, A Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902, Edmonton, Alta.: University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 88:
- Oh, you don’t catch me on a gee-gee’s [footnote: A “gee-gee” is a horse.] back again, / It’s not the sort of place that you can doze on, / For the only ’orse that I think that I can ride / Is the one that the m’ssis dries the clothes on.
- 2015, Tim Griffiths, “Glebe and Lithgow, 1898–1910”, in Endurance, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:
- Then one day his bookkeeper didn't show up for work, just disappeared, the financial records and journals gone with him. / 'He stole from you?' / 'He blew it all on the gee-gees and cards. I had no idea. You just can't trust people Jamie.'
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]colloquial, usually childish: a horse
References
[edit]- “gee-gee”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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