Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express mild surprise, amazement, or enthusiasm.
Wiktionary
- interj. US (dated) Expression of surprise or annoyance.
- interj. "Why should I care?"; so what?
- adj. very good, impressive.
Etymologies
- Alteration of Jesus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another substitute word for God is gee, though gee whiz and gee whillikers! are ways of not quite saying “Jesus.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gee whiz’.
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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Jilly's Words
luscious, horseshit, marlpit, teratoma, yonder, squish, frank, soft, spire, mentalist, ululation, youins and 42 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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Watch Your Language, Young Man
Ahh, euphemisms. Every schoolkid's favorite pastime. They sound so naughty, but you can't really get in trouble for using them, can you?
darn, dang, shoot, shucks, flip, geez, gee whiz, golly, son of a gun, crud, shyster, holy schnikes and 58 more...
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neat!
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neat, nifty, keen, swell, far out, groovy, wicked, peachy, awesome, rad, boss, cool and 50 more...
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G is for Guitar Face
My G Words
good grief, gruesome twosome, gal friday, gallop, galoshes, gangbusters, gaslight, gestapo, gigolo, gingersnaps, girdle, girl friday and 67 more...
Tweets
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treeseed a minced oath for Jesus
Feb 12, 2008