Noun

(en noun)

(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.

(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.

(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.

(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}

Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.

A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.

(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).

(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.

In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.

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. }}

* {{quote-book

, 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.