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Golly vs Gee - What's the difference?

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Gee is a synonym of golly.



As interjections the difference between golly and gee

is that golly is god while gee is a general exclamation of surprise or frustration.

As nouns the difference between golly and gee

is that golly is abbreviation of golliwog:|lang=en while gee is a gee-gee; a horse.

As verbs the difference between golly and gee

is that golly is to spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat while gee is to turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.

golly

English

Etymology 1

Euphemism for God, dating from the 18th century. Possibly a compaction of “God?s body”.

Alternative forms

* gollies

Interjection

  • (euphemistic) God!
  • * 1898 , '', page 511,
    • “Golly ! What would dad say if I did marry him?”
  • * 1906 , , Chip of the Flying U , page 88,
    • “By golly , I don?t see how you done that without seein? it happen,” exclaimed Slim, looking very dazed and mystified.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter I, VIII, and X , passage=“Got anybody else staying at the old snake pit?” “Five inmates in all.” “Five?” I resumed my tongue-clicking. “Golly'! Uncle Tom must be frothing at the mouth a bit,” I said, for I knew the old buster's distaste for guests in the home. Even a single weekender is sometimes enough to make him drain the bitter cup.
    [...]
    “Bertie! Your manner is strange.” “Your manner would be strange if you'd been sitting on the floor of Wilbert Cream's sleeping apartment with a chair round your neck, and Ma Cream had come in.” “'''Golly'''! Did she?” “In person.”
    [...]
    “And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker.” “Oh, gosh!” “I put my whole soul into it.” “Oh, '     golly     !”}}
    Synonyms
    * gosh

    Etymology 2

    From golliwog.

    Noun

    (gollies)
  • # A type of black rag doll.
  • #* 1985 , , Volumes 71-72, page 4,
  • There are pictures of the original “gollywogg” (thus spelt) from Florence Upton?s 19th century children?s books; there are examples of anti-semitic Edwardian gollies with huge noses, and all sorts of other curiosities.
  • #* 2007 , , Littlejohn?s Britain , page 162,
  • The Golliwog Squad was also making itself busy in Worthing, Sussex. Police said they were treating as a matter of ‘priority’ a complaint about gollies being displayed in a local store. Owner John Scadgell faced charges under Section 2 of the Public Order Act, which makes it an offence to exhibit anything which could be considered threatening, abusive or insulting.
  • # (offensive, ethnic slur) Any dark skinned person.
  • #* 2005 , Richard Snailham, The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968 , page 217,
  • “Bloody gollies !” muttered David Bromhead, provoked by the assault into bitter xenophobia.
  • #* 2008 , Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis , page 137,
  • poked fun at the American “fashion” of “political correctness” and reassured viewers that gollies and black minstrel shows are just good, old-fashioned, innocent fun.

    • Etymology 3

    Nonstandard diminutive of galosh.

    Noun

    (gollies)
  • (UK) A galosh.

    • Etymology 4

    Possibly from Goliath.
    (en)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (Australia, juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat. “golly'”, entry in '''1984 , Eric Partridge, ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 8th edition, reprinted 2000, page 483.
  • * 2010 , Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill: Growing Up in Townsville in World War II , revised edition, page 113,
    • When he saw what was happening he threw down his bag, gollied up some phlegm, and spat into the sand.

    Noun

    (gollies)
  • (Australian slang, juvenile) Chewing gum.
  • (Australian slang, juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.
    • hack up a golly
  • * 2011 , Douglas Booth, Surfing: The Ultimate Guide , page 10,
    • They had to have a spitting competition. They had to hack gollies at each other?s heads.(Abraham 1999, 53)

    Derived terms

    * golly pot

    References

    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.
    Related terms
    * gay (in shorthand)

    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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