Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express surprise or annoyance.
Wiktionary
- interj. slang Exclamation of fright, incredibility, shock, surprise or anger.
Etymologies
- Shortened form of Jesus. A minced oath. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Jesus1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“” But jeez, is it working for you, using that term? —”
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“All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from Ethan3 wrote 15 weeks 6 days ago jeez, that is a lot of fish. im sure it was a fun day for him.”
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“All Comments from Ethan3 wrote 15 weeks 6 days ago jeez, that is a lot of fish. im sure it was a fun day for him.”
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“And the men went to their defensive position and I had been away from troops from combat troops OK I'd had a battalion at Ft. Lewis just before I came to Vietnam on this tour but I'd been away from the war for a couple years and I was nervous as Nellie you know I grabbed the radio and thought, "jeez," I hope I don't blow this thing.”
“It prevents websites from running scripts unless you specifically allow them to; I went to the nytimes. com website and couldn’t figure out what you were complaining about until I remembered to turn it off (and jeez, that is bloody annoying).”
“And if you don't want to offend Christians, "jeez" or "cripes" are out of bounds too ..!”
“The documentary was great, esp the collaboration at the end with Bono - jeez if I am getting that right.”
“The VP elected separately …. jeez we tried that …. back then the VP was a better shot.”
“But jeez, that actually wasn't what I was trying to write here at all.”
“Yes | No | Report from bowhunter352 wrote 48 weeks 3 days ago haha jeez, Mr. animal planet figured it out on his own ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jeez’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Expletive Mimicry
Words that sound like words you shouldn't use.
frak, feldergarb, dagummit, daggum, gosh, darn, golly, fiddleesticks, fudge, gee, dang, shoot and 36 more...
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Utah Words
sluff, fetch, heck, yewt, coogar, flip, zoobie, dang, darn, jeez, frick, gosh
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Euphemisms for Curses
dang, darn, heck, shucks, shoot, dad gummit, dad burn it, gol dingit, sheesh, jeez, tarnation, consarn it and 8 more...
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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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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Exclamation words!
Oh my!
gadzooks, wowsers, jinkies, wowee, eureka, hurrah, huzzah, tada, elementary, geronimo, timber, voila and 15 more...
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slang
dang it, oh my gawd, crap, tsup, sup, nope, ya, fuck you, screw you, yo, l word, gee and 14 more...
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the third commandment
Words that exist so people don't say "God" and "Jesus" and suchlike, but are still a little morally iffy...and somehow cute.
jeez, golly, gosh, gracious, jiminy cricket, jove, gosh darn, gee, jeepers creepers
Tweets
Looking for tweets for jeez.
Prolagus See also enclitic. Jun 30, 2008
cathari Wonder if Pete is St. Peter?
--But yeah, I always assumed that words like "jeez" were formed because no one actually wanted to blaspheme, but they wanted to use the useful phrase for that use (not to be used for the other use). So they figured that if they weren't actually saying "Jesus", it wasn't blasphemy, even if that's what they meant. Or perhaps they started to say it and bit it off short because they remembered they didn't want to say it. Oct 30, 2007
reesetee Jiminy's brother? Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear Listen, don't get me wrong: spats rock. Out loud on toast. But not on that annoying, loudmouth cricket with the disproportionately large head! Who's he trying to kid, walking upright on two legs? And wearing a silk top hat, for Pete's sake?!
And who the hell is Pete?!
*froths* Oct 22, 2007
reesetee Wow! Snazzy conscience you have there, trivet!
I don't wear boot slippers, really. Nor would my conscience. Lately, in fact, my conscience has taken to wearing clown shoes. I don't know what it thinks it's up to. Oct 22, 2007
trivet My conscience definitely wears spats. And has a twirly cane.
NOT a cricket, though.
I only have one word for boot slippers: uggly! Oct 22, 2007
reesetee My conscience wouldn't be caught dead in spats, I'm afraid. Now boot slippers--they're a whole different type of footwear. ;-) Oct 22, 2007
trivet What if the cricket is your conscience?
Oct 22, 2007
reesetee But decidedly less cool on a cricket, I think, than on a human. ;-) Oct 22, 2007
trivet Spats are cool, dammit! Oct 22, 2007
reesetee Haha! Chained_bear: "What's up with the damn spats?"
I always wondered that! Oct 22, 2007
jennarenn Actually it's the frass, as well as the expired crickets themselves. Ugh. Oct 21, 2007
chained_bear You mean the rotting cricket chitin? Or the spats?
Wait... does chitin even rot? Or just degrade? Oct 21, 2007
jennarenn Crickets are only icky when you keep them confined to cages for weeks. Then the smell gets pretty intense. Oct 20, 2007
chained_bear You gotta hand it to Disney, though--they made an icky insect less of an icky insect and more an annoying flibbertigibbet that reminds you of nothing so much as ... well, a conscience.
In spats. What's up with the damn spats? Oct 20, 2007
reesetee Quite literally. Oct 19, 2007
uselessness Better an icky insect than, um, nothing. Remember, Pinocchio was a blockhead. Oct 19, 2007
npydyuan Why is that creepy? Oct 19, 2007
rocksinmypockets Didn't JC act as Pinocchio's conscience (and savior) in the Disney version? Kind of creepy. Oct 19, 2007
chained_bear Well, this wouldn't be the first time someone accused Disney of making an old story into a religious, racial, or even sexual parable. Oct 17, 2007
reesetee No, talking crickets were in the original story, but not Jiminy Cricket the character.
Actually, the original was very much a hard-luck tale--and gruesome. Also political, based on the climate of Tuscany at the time. Oct 17, 2007
uselessness Wasn't the Jiminy Cricket character just fabricated for the Disney cartoon, and named for the phrase? Pretty sure he didn't exist in the original story. Oct 17, 2007
reesetee Could very well be, when you think about it. Oct 17, 2007
rocksinmypockets Now I'm wondering if the entire Pinocchio story is a thinly veiled religious lesson. Hmmm. Oct 17, 2007
rocksinmypockets What?! No! Now I have to stop saying jiminy cricket. Oh balls. (Don't tell me that's religious, too.) *grumbling to self in disgust* Oct 17, 2007
uselessness "Who's in the house? J.C.!" Oct 16, 2007
reesetee Wait--Jiminy Cricket was named after Jesus? My head is spinning. Oct 16, 2007
npydyuan Hmm.... still religious, apparently:
"exclamation of surprise, 1803, a disguised oath, probably for Jesu Domine "Jesus Lord." Extended form jiminy cricket is attested from 1848"
(from www.etymonline.com)
That Jesu sure gets around. Oct 16, 2007
rocksinmypockets Being the non-religious sort, I prefer "jiminy," short for "jiminy cricket," as an alternative. Oct 16, 2007
reesetee I always wondered about that Louise. Oct 16, 2007
kad i like "jeez louise" myself. Oct 16, 2007
skipvia Well, apparently not me. I must have used it 20 times today. I mean, jeez... Oct 16, 2007
chained_bear Skipv, honestly, who can live without this word? Oct 16, 2007
skipvia I've also heard "jeez-o peez-o," which I like very much. Oct 15, 2007
uselessness I always hear jeez oh pete's. Oct 15, 2007
reesetee In this area it sometimes morphs into jeez o man. I have no idea what that is. ;-) Oct 15, 2007
skipvia After more than 50 years of using this term, it just dawned on me that it's short for "jesus," as in bejeezus, a.k.a. "bejesus."
I'll have to remember not to use this around church people anymore. Oct 14, 2007