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- verb Present participle of
gee .
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Examples
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The leader, guided by the voice, "geeing" and "hawing," stopping and advancing at the word of command, is a white man's innovation, though now universally adopted by the natives.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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a great deal of "geeing" and "hawing" and fuss, and then, instead of getting down, the farmer called out, --
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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England may well have had Gatland to thank for geeing up Hartley.
Six Nations 2011: Toby Flood plays key role in England win | Ben Kay 2011
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Having Montgomerie geeing you up is one thing, but having the iconic Seve Ballesteros whispering in the other ear is another altogether.
Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team Lawrence Donegan at Celtic Manor 2010
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Indeed as dad began geeing her up for the match, I started to feel more and more like the odd one out.
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I pull the window washer's cap down over my eyes and pretend to be squee-geeing.
The Accordion 2009
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We’d put up with a lifetime of Cameron mourning if the alternative was shagging that has-been – even if Kriss Akabusi was geeing us on from the sidelines, which he almost certainly would be.
Justin Timberlake & Cameron Diaz Still Not Splitting Up 2008
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To him Mr. Touchwood called loudly, enquiring after his master; but the clown, conscious of being taken in flagrant delict, as the law says, fled from him like a guilty thing, instead of obeying his summons, and was soon heard hupping and geeing to the cart, which he had left on the other side of the broken wall.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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“The regiment is somehow got back,” wrote Thomas Lackland in Homespun; or, Five-and-Twenty Years Ago, an 1867 novel, “by geeing and hawing … while he ‘gees’ and ‘haws’ the yoke of cattle.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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“The regiment is somehow got back,” wrote Thomas Lackland in Homespun; or, Five-and-Twenty Years Ago, an 1867 novel, “by geeing and hawing … while he ‘gees’ and ‘haws’ the yoke of cattle.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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