gee-upint.
/ˈdʒiːˈʌp/ = gee int.1
ΚΠ
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. xii. 36 Gee, Gee, Boys, Hup!]
1769 Trinculo's Trip 29 Yates a Carter, without a je-hup.
1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 34 Cross Hounslow Heath, jee up! jee o!
1825 Sporting Mag. 16 332 A second ‘Gee up’ issued from behind a hedge.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Wks. (1872) X. 225 Gee-up, carter.
1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge I. iii Gee up, 'oss.
Derivatives
gee-up v. (also gee-hup) (intransitive and transitive) to say ‘gee-up’ (to), also (of a horse), to obey this call.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > urge on > in specific way
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1752 S. Foote Taste ii. 23 May I..be tumbled from my Phaeton the first Time I jehup my Sorels.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 28 He was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postillion.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 442 Mr. Bubb ge-hupp'd in vain, and strove to jirk the rein, Nobbs..wouldn't mend his pace.
1881 W. P. Lennox Plays, Players, etc. I. 203 The country lad who..had ‘gee-ho-ed’ and ‘gee-up-ed’ him [sc. my horse].
1888 Punch 21 Apr. 186/1 ‘Gee-up!’ he cried. The horse gee-up'd, To gallant G——'s joy.
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