| 释义 |
hully gee, int. Chiefly U.S.|ˈhʌlɪ ˈdʒiː|
Also holly gee.
[Corruption of Holy Jesus.]
An exclamation of delight or surprise.
1895E. W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden Explains 58 And holly gee! I never knowed de Duckess could do it! Ibid. 69 ‘Holly gee!’ says de mug, ‘don't do dat,’ he says, and slips me a fiver. 1898‘O. Thanet’ Heart of Toil 76 Hully gee, Michael, but you are just there, and don't you forget it. 1907F. H. Burnett Shuttle xxiii. 238 To be treated as a gentleman by a gentleman—by ‘a fine old swell like this—Hully gee!’ 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling i. 3 We picked up a pair of wire-strainers, his leather coat, and a typewriter: then hully-gee! we were off again over the hideous Pyrmont Bridge. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 664 Hully gee (for Holy Jesus) was introduced by Edward W. Townsend's Chimmie Fadden and Major Max (New York, 1895), but it disappeared with the decay of the Bowery boy as an American comic type. |