▪ I. jee, v. Sc.
(dʒiː)
[Origin obscure: cf. gee v.1]
1. intr. To move, to stir; to move to one side; to move to and fro (quot. 1727).
| 1727 Ramsay Bessy Bell & Mary G. iv, Our fancies jee between you twae, Ye are sic bonny lasses. 1789 Ross Helenore (ed. 3) 60 She never jee'd [ed. 1768 budg'd], till he was out o' sight. 1896 J. Lumsden Poems 123 A gloom fell owre the hame when Willie jeed awa. |
2. trans. To cause to move, to move; to move aside, shift, or displace slightly.
| 1722 Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 224 Wha wi' havins jees his bonnet. 1825–80 Jamieson, ‘Ye're no able to jee it;’ You cannot move it. 1838 J. Struthers Poetic T. 81 A lassie..Staw up our stair Syne jee't the door. |
▪ II. jee, n. Sc.
[f. prec. vb.]
‘A move, motion’ (Jam. 1880). on the jee: off the straight, ajee.
| 1829 Blackw. Mag. XXV. 560 You canna gie your head a jie to the ae side, without [etc.]. 1893 Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 276 To set you on the jee. |
▪ III. jee, adv. and int.
a. The verb-stem used adverbially or as an exclamation: see jee v. 1 (Sc.). b. = gee int.1, a word of command to a horse.
| 1785 Burns Vision i. vii, When click! the string the snick did draw; And jee! the door gaed to the wa'. 1880 Jamieson, Jee, jee-up, a call to a horse to move. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 137 Only the creak of the gibbets Or waggoner's jee. |