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.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One of a flight of steps.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:

"My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."

(label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

He is a shepherd great in gree .

Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

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*:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye

A degree.

Noun

Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).

* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:

bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.

* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :

And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.

* Fairfax

Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.

* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:

When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."