- 1馬馬(兒語,對小孩說的「馬」;偏英式)
A gee-gee is a horse — but only in the kind of English you use with small children, or when you are being . A little child “goes to see the gee-gees”. An adult talking seriously to another adult would just say horse. It is mainly British; American children are more likely to say horsie. The feeling is warm and a bit silly, never a textbook word. In older British talk, the gee-gees could even mean horse racing or a bet on horses, though that already sounds dated. You would not write it in a science report, and you would not use it about a wild horse in a nature film unless you were talking to a child.
From the word’s history
Reduplication of gee, a command to a horse to go forward.
把 gee(叫馬往前走的吆喝聲)重複一次而成。
組成Gee said twice. That gee was a command to an animal: move on, go faster, or turn right.
同家族的字
- geethe old command to a horse that this word repeats — not the surprise gee
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gee-geenoun/ˈdʒiːˌdʒiː/
- 1
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."
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。