gee-upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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gee up

1. (directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield:

     Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 223:

     There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.

   • 1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN:

     "Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather

   • 1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book Big Klaus and Little Klaus, →ISBN

     He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"