gee-gee
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of gee-gee
C19: reduplication of gee 1
Example Sentences
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"Who's the old gee-gee with the whiskers?" asked the disrespectful Isadore, when the real estate man came down to the dock, with the constable slouching behind him.
From Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box by Emerson, Alice B.
Mine was a gentle old gee-gee and yet I felt good when we were all on the ground again.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont
I lose him in the crowd and then take a peek at the entries again and find the gee-gee I intended betting on didn't even start.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by McGaffey, Kenneth
She was convinced that he had made a great advance in intelligence since his journey down to Pyechurch: not once did he hail a sheep as a gee-gee.
From Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl by Jepson, Edgar
Moreover, on my high gee-gee I learned what galloping could be.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 by Various
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