geez

interjection, N. Amer., expressing annoyance, frustration, etc. (COD); phrases oh geez, by geez

“They used to run that old boat at night. Geez, they used to go out in an awful sea.”

“Well, even George Bush knows that’s not true. I mean, geez.”

“I was invited and I said, ‘Oh geez, this is an honour’.”

“Oh, it burnt the hay loader. Oh geez.”

“So, geez, the next day I wake up, and I hear a car driving in, and I look out — it’s Sarah. All dressed up, in she comes.”

“I told him, and he’s like ‘Oh geez. They’ll send you home.’ I said ‘Ok, so they send me home. I didn’t have a job this morning; I haven’t got one tomorrow morning’.”

“Another one … were the grave robbers over here. The medical students always needed a cadaver from the graveyard. So they’d watch the paper and see who was newly interred … So over they go, and up comes a body, and the sun was coming up …  ‘Oh, geez, what’ll we do? Well, we’ll hide it in the grain. Hide it in the granary here at this place’… Grampa comes out to get the grain for the horses in the morning and uncovers the body.”

“She’s due to have her baby this week. ‘Well we better not change the oil [on the ferry] ’cause we’re going to be running!’ And you probably would be. ‘Oh geez, we better put that off then. How close is she?’ ‘Aw, she’s due to pop any time’.”

“Everybody’s at rest … everything’s, you know, quiet. ‘Honk!’ and I thought — Who the hell is this? And I looked out and I said, ‘Oh geez, somebody needs the boat’. So I come out. I said, ‘What is it?’ ‘Baby’s coming!’ … ‘Okay, we got an emergency, guys! Fast!’ So one by one you hear everything fire up. We’d have the boat running in less than eight minutes.”

“Dad and Uncle Tom and all of them, they got on that old ice saw, and they cut that old Duke [ship] out to open water to set the nets, and by geez if the wind didn’t shift, and the ice come back in again, and they had to cut her all the way back in again.”