Definitions
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- noun colloquial A
horse .
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- noun a word for horse used by children or in adult slang
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Examples
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While our Waddles that's our gee-gee had his meal,
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I have drawn a fresh horse from the remounts we are in charge of; my last gee-gee I called "Barkis," because he was willing, this brute I shall have to dub "Smith," because he certainly is not -- Willing.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross
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"Who's the old gee-gee with the whiskers?" asked the disrespectful
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson
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Moreover, on my high gee-gee I learned what galloping could be.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 Various
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Thinking he was referring to some other gee-gee of his, possibly one called appropriately after the Falls, and which was being broken in,
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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Mine was a gentle old gee-gee and yet I felt good when we were all on the ground again.
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Mine was a gentle old gee-gee and yet I felt good when we were all on the ground again.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917
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"I thought he always had to go into the country to look at a gee-gee on these occasions."
The Woman with the Fan Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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It was more than a year since he had been in the country; and he had to be told earnestly and more than once that a cow was a cow and a sheep a baa-lamb, for he was inclined to class them all alike under the genus gee-gee.
Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900
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After a long while, he sat up, looked at the horse, said in a quaint, thin whisper, "Gee-gee -- mine like gee-gee"; and then looked swiftly round with frightened eyes, fearful lest he had drawn attention to his existence.
The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900
knitandpurl commented on the word gee-gee
"Mine are not writerly journeys in the accepted sense: Rouseeau philosophising à pied, Goethe rattling into Switzerland in a coach, Cobbett on his clopping gee-gee, assorted Borrows and Stevensons plodding with their donkeys, Greene rocking on a train, Thesiger with a camel up his arse."
Psychogeography by Will Self, p 12
October 11, 2010