gee whiz

/dʒiː wɪz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English

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intj

American usage; Dated

adj

Informal

"You only got 10% in the test. Gee whiz – you'll get over it."
"When people would get off they always gasped out: 'Gee whiz, what a horse! Gee whiz, did you ever see anything like that! '"
"Gee whiz, how do people have fun when they're married and have a family?"
"That's the way I feel now; I just wrote the novels and made up the languages, and gee whiz, they make sense!"
"These are some gee-whiz photographs."

Alteration of Jesus.

gee-whizzery

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The recorded pronunciation is /dʒiː wɪz/.

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Where does gee whiz come from?

Alteration of Jesus.

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