Noun

(s)

A flying insect, of the superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies and for collecting pollen and producing wax and honey.

*1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

*:His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:

An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee .

*, II.12:

*:Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees ?

*2012 , ‘Subtle poison’, The Economist , 31 March:

*:Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.

Noun

(en noun)

A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.

geography bee

A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.

* S. G. Goodrich

The cellar was dug by a bee in a single day.

* 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:

Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee ”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.

* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:

And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.

* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 16:

...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees , the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...

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Noun

(en noun)

Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.

Noun

(en noun)

A gee-gee; a horse.

* 1879 , , Act I:

*:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee .

Noun

(en noun)

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

(slang) ; a thousand dollars.

ten gees

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

* {{quote-magazine

, year = 1949 , month = July , first = Margaret , last = St. Clair , authorlink = Margaret St. Clair , title = Sacred Martian Pig , magazine = Startling Stories , page = 92 , passage = I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee , being from earth. }}

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, year = 1987 , first = Tom , last = Clancy , authorlink = Tom Clancy , title = Patriot Games , page = 449 , passage = 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. }}

(US, slang) A guy.

* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 197:

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

Noun

(en noun)

(Ireland, slang) (vagina), (vulva) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 850, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0-415-25937-1.

* 1987 , (Roddy Doyle), (The Commitments) , King Farouk, Dublin:

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

* 1991 , (Roddy Doyle), , p. 65. Secker & Warburg (ISBN: 0-436-20052-X):

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) , p. 71. John Calder (ISBN: 978-0714542133):

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 , (w, Joseph O'Connor), (Red Roses and Petrol) , p. 7. Methuen (ISBN: 978-0413699909):

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