Gee-gee Dodge, subs. phr. (trade).—Selling horseflesh for beef.
1884. Greenwood, Veiled Mysteries. The gee-gee dodge . . . was seldom or ever practised . . . it was impossible . . . to bargain for a regular supply.
Geekie, subs. (Scots thieves').—A
police-station.
Geeloot. See Galoot.
Geese, All his geese are
swans, phr. (colloquial).—He
habitually exaggerates, or embroiders
(q.v); or, He is
always wrong in his estimates of
persons and things.
The old woman's picking her geese (proverbial).—Said of a snowstorm. [The other leg of the couplet (schoolboys') runs: 'And selling the feathers a penny a piece.']
Like geese on a common (colloquial).—Wandering in a body, aggressive and at large: e.g., as faddists (q.v.) in pursuit of a fad; or members of Parliament in recess, when both sides go about to say the thing which is in them.
Geewhilikens! intj. (Western
American).—An exclamation of
surprise; also jeewhilikens.
1888. Detroit Free Press. It is on time? No? Three hours late? Geewhilikens!
Geezer, subs. (popular).—An
appellation, sometimes, but not
necessarily, of derision and contempt;
applied to both sexes,
but generally to women. Usually,
old geezer. For synonyms,
see Witch.
1885. Truth about the Stage, p. 16. If we wake up the old geezers we shall get notice to quit without compensation
1886. Broadside Ballad. 'Her Mother's Got the Hump.' This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough—well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
1890. A. Chevalier, 'Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road.' Nice old geezer with a nasty cough.
1892. Anstey, Voces Populi, p. 82. Our old geeser's perdoocin' the custimary amount o' sensation.
Gelding, subs. (old).—A eunuch.
1380. Wycliffe, Trans. of the Bible, Acts viii. 39. . . . the spirit of the Lord ravysched Filip, and the geldynge say him no more.
1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
To enter for the geldings' stakes, verb. phr. (old).—To castrate a man; also used to describe a eunuch.
Gelt, subs. (old).—Money; gilt
(q.v.). Also gelter.—(Duncombe,
1848).
1690. B. E., Dict. of the Cant. Crew, s.v. There is no gelt to be got, Trading is very dull.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Gemini! (or Geminy! or Jiminy!)
intj. (common).—An exclamation
of surprise; a mild oath.
[Generally referred to the Lat.:
Gemini = the Twins (i.e., Castor
and Pollux, the objects of an
old Roman oath); but Palmer
(Folk Etymology), traces the
interjection to the German, O
Gemine!; Dutch, Jemy Jemini!;
both abbreviated from the Latin,
O Jesu Domine!; or merely from
Jesu meus!; Italian, Giesu mio!
It seems to have come in at the
Restoration.] Also O Jimminy!;
