First Known Use of geez Noun , in the meaning defined above. Learn More About geez. Time Traveler for geez The first known use of geez was in See more words from the same year.
Statistics for geez Look-up Popularity. Style: MLA. More Definitions for geez. English Language Learners Definition of geez. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. I once read a comment somewhere on the innertubes by someone who said "oh gee" in school in the US at least half a century ago , was made to stand in the corner to think about what she had just done, and didn't figure out what she had supposedly done for years or decades. Most importantly, which spelling was allowed in the Scabble dictionary?
Or both? Chambers doesn't have geez, although it does have Ge'ez, the ancient language of Ethiopia. It also has Jeeze as an alternative spelling of Jeez, and capitalises both, presumably to emphasise it's from Jesus. Outside North America, Scrabble is played with an official word list that some time ago combined the North American and British Scrabble word list.
Since then, the two Scrabble standards have mutated further. Note I say 'word list', because tournament Scrabble 'dictionaries' have no definitions, just lists of words in all their inflected versions. I recall seeing a Chambers Scrabble dictionary on sale many years ago, but I see it's not listed on their website any more. Mind you Chambers seem to have stopped printing dictionaries.
The last paper edition came out in although it was reprinted with a major mistake corrected. The previous edition had highlighted "interesting" words such as "taghairm" - to sit under a waterfall wearing a bullock hide but they decided to remove the highlighting and wires got crossed and they removed all those interesting words entirely. My copy of Chambers has fallen to bits and I now rely on an electronic version. Not the free online version but a downloadable app. Still, I find it interesting that geez isn't in the latest Chambers, which is usually quite inclusive.
My mother objected to "jeez" but not "gee whiz"—almost certainly because that was the rule her own mother had. However, I think this impression of "gee whiz" as less profane may be fairly commonplace.
As a young child, I am sure that I saw "gee whiz" spelled out plenty of times, before the other word. I first saw "jeez" in written form in Bunnicula ; it was spelled that way, with a "j. While I had seen "gee whiz" in print plenty of time. Haven't you read that already? Yes, I reviewed it here a few months ago.
Many of the differences I run into come up in folk songs, most recently "a little tin," which I understood as a small tin box but which a friend tells me means a little money. Sorry--that's off topic but a recent discovery, so I thought I'd drop it on your doorstep. I don't think it's formally a word yet, if I'm not mistaken, so I guess unless they make it official we can use both or probably even if they do make it official since both are already widely used they will make them both acceptable.
It's slang for Jesus or Jesus Christ. So it should technically be written as Jeez instead of geez, even though you hear the g sound.
Hope that helps. I think both are okay and there isn't a "correct" way to write it. I use "jeez" just because but I know people who use geez and it doesn't bother me at all. It's jeez most of the time. You can even exaggerate by writing adding a lot of "e" letters. Works perfect, people are getting that. Only God judges our hearts. It is not our job to judge others. I personally don't swear and didn't know and never meant gees as a swear word replacement. That's why I spell it with a g.
I know God knows this and understands and that's all I need to know. If I ever had children though I probably would break the habit of using the word for their sake.
I'm a Christian but honestly if some Christians would worry a little less about what others say and do wrong and more about loving and and helping others, I think it would be alot more productive. Scripture does say, judge not lest you be judged. Also says, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.
John I always thought it was jeez because j makes a ju sound and g makes a gu sound and it's not gu-ee-z. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Paste as plain text instead. Display as a link instead. Clear editor. Upload or insert images from URL. Jeez or Geez.
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