gee-gee
noun/ˈdʒiːˌdʒiː/UK/ˈdʒiˌdʒi/US
Etymology
Reduplication of gee (“a command to an animal to move forward, go faster, or turn right”).
Definitions
A horse.
- [W]hen great Aunt Ryder was exhausted with carrying her little nephews pick-a-back, Aunt Ellen was always willing to become a ‘gee-gee’ or riding-horse in her place, although certainly one of no very prancing and fiery temperament.
- I once heard a gee-gee neigh. / I thought he was calling for heigh. / But a man tapped my head, / And smilingly said, / "It's just that he feels a bit geigh."
- Oh, you don’t catch me on a gee-gee’s [footnote: A “gee-gee” is a horse.] back again, / It’s not the sort of place that you can doze on, / For the only ’orse that I think that I can ride / Is the one that the m’ssis dries the clothes on.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA