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GEE-UP!

Specialty Definition: GEE-UP!

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Gee-up! and ~~~Gee-woo!
Gee-woo! addressed to horses both mean "Horse, get on." Gee = horse. In Notts and many other counties nurses say to young children, "Come and see the gee-gees." There is not the least likelihood that Gee-woo is the Italian gio, because gio will not fit in with any of the other terms, and it is absurd to suppose our peasants would go to Italy for such a word. Woa! or Woo! (q.v.), meaning stop, or halt, is quite another word. We subjoin the following quotation, although we differ from it. (See Come Ather.)
"Et cum sic gloriaretur, et cogitares cum quanta gloria duceretur ad illum virum super equum, dicendo Gio! Gio! cepit pede percutere terram quasi pungeret equum calcaribus." - Dialogus Creaturarum (1480). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GEE-UP!

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "!-e-e-g-p-u"

-3 letters: gee, pee, peg, pug.

-4 letters: pe, up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GEE-UP!


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 45 2D 55 50 21

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01000101 00101101 01010101 01010000 00100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#69 &#45 &#85 &#80 &#33

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 0045 002D 0055 0050 0021

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4139391555503

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