Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#GEEUP

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#GEEUP

Interjection

gee upCategory:English lemmas#GEEUPCategory:English interjections#GEEUPCategory:English multiword terms#GEEUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEEUPCategory:Pages with entries#GEE%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GEE%20UP

1. (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield:

     Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!

     Category:English terms with quotations#GEEUP

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 223:

     There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.

     Category:English terms with quotations#GEEUP

   • 1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN:

     "Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather

     Category:English terms with quotations#GEEUP

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
   • 1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book, Big Klaus and Little Klaus,, →ISBN:

     He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"

     Category:English terms with quotations#GEEUP

Verb

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)Category:English lemmas#GEEUPCategory:English verbs#GEEUPCategory:English phrasal verbs#GEEUPCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22up%22#GEEUPCategory:English multiword terms#GEEUPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEEUPCategory:Pages with entries#GEE%20UPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#GEE%20UP

1. (slangCategory:English slang#GEEUP) To encourage.
2. (slangCategory:English slang#GEEUP) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.
   • "US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.