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As verbs the difference between get and gee

is that get is (label) to obtain; to acquire while gee is (often as imperative to a draft animal) to turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.

As nouns the difference between get and gee

is that get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce while gee is a gee-gee; a horse or gee can be or gee can be (ireland|slang) (vagina), (vulva)[http://booksgooglecom/books?id=4yfseghljboc&pg=pa850&lpg=pa850&dq=gee+%22om+dalzell%22+%22terry+victor%22&source=bl&ots=7jrck2k_5c&sig=gvq1g1ffirwftymi7wgybhf0304&hl=en&sa=x&ei=tddat5pc5jsjatgoljml&ved=0ccaq6aewaa#v=onepage&q&f=false the new partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional english ] p 850, tom dalzell and terry victor routledge, 2006 isbn: 0-415-25937-1.

As an interjection gee is

a general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

get

English

(wikipedia get)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.

Verb

  • (label) To obtain; to acquire.
  • (label) To receive.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
  • To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
  • (label) To become.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
  • * , chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
  • (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • *
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
  • (label) To fetch, bring, take.
  • * Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
  • Get thee out from this land.
  • * (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
  • Heto the strong town of Mega.
  • (label) To cause to do.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Get him to say his prayers.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • to get rid of fools and scoundrels
  • (label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • to get a mile
  • (label) To cause to come or go or move.
  • (label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • * (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
  • Get thee behind me.
  • (label) To begin (doing something).
  • (label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • (label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
  • To be subjected to.
  • * '>citation
  • Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
  • (label) To be.
  • *
  • (label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • To catch out, trick successfully.
  • To perplex, stump.
  • (label) To find as an answer.
  • To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • (label) To hear completely; catch.
  • (label) To .
  • To beget (of a father).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
  • Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
  • (label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
  • * (1625-1686)
  • it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
  • Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • *2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
  • Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
    Usage notes
    In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participle http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
    Synonyms
    * (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getter
    Antonyms
    * (obtain) lose
    Derived terms
    * beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have got

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Offspring.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
  • ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
  • Lineage.
  • (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • Something gained.
  • * 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
  • I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.

    Etymology 2

    Variant of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, regional) A git .
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
  • Statistics

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    gee

    English

    Etymology 1

    A shortening of (Jesus), perhaps as in the oath (by Jesus)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
  • Gee , I didn't know that!
    Gee , this is swell fun!
    Usage notes
    Gee'' is generally considered somewhat dated or juvenile. It is often used for ironic effect, with the speaker putting on the persona of a freshly-scrubbed freckle-faced kid from days gone by (e.g. 1950 sitcom children, such as Beaver on ).
    Synonyms
    * (exclamation of surprise) geez, gosh, golly
    Derived terms
    * gee whiz * gee whillikers, gee willikers, gee willickers

    Etymology 2

    Verb

  • (often as imperative to a draft animal) To turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
  • This horse won't gee when I tell him to.
    You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.
    Mush, huskies. Now, gee'''! ' Gee !
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
  • (Forby)
    Derived terms
    * gee haw whimmy diddle
    Coordinate terms
    * haw

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gee-gee; a horse.
  • * 1879 , , Act I:
  • *:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee .
  • Etymology 3

    Pronunciation of the letter (G).

    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.

    Etymology 4

    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.

    See also

    * ("gee" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    References

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