jeez
interjection
Geez is defined as an exclamation you shout showing surprise or annoyance.
When you are annoyed because your friend is late for the 10th time in a row, this is an example of when you might shout "Geez!"
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geez
interjection
Used to express mild surprise, delight, dissatisfaction, or annoyance.
Origin of geez
Shortening and alteration of JesusTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Interjection
- (euphemistic) An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.
Noun
- (UK, slang) Informal address to a male; abbreviation of geezer
- Hi geez, you alright?
Origin
See also: Ge'ezA minced oath of the word Jesus.
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Sentence Examples
- Geez, it just seems that the celebrities can't keep themselves out of trouble with the law, as Heather Locklear is formally charged.
- Geez. Looks like it's been hit by a locomotive.
- Version was translated into Geez, the literary language, which is used for all services, though hardly understood.
- 700, after which time that language seems definitely to have been displaced in favour of Ethiopic or Geez: the condition of the script and the coins renders them all difficult to identify with the names preserved in the native lists, which are too fanciful and mutually contradictory to furnish of themselves even a vestige of history.
- They possess - not in Hebrew, of which they are altogether ignorant, but in Ethiopic (or Geez)- the canonical and apocryphal books of the Old Testament; a volume of extracts from the Pentateuch, with comments given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai; the Te-e-sa-sa Sanbat, or laws of the Sabbath; the Ardit, a book of secrets revealed to twelve saints, which is used as a charm against disease; lives of Abraham, Moses, &c.; and a translation of Josephus called Sana Aihud.
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