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Etymology 1 n. (plural of gei English) Etymology 2
n. a solemn injunction
Wikipedia
Geis is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- George J. Geis (c.1860–1936), American Baptist minister and anthropologist
- Gerald Geis (born 1933), American politician
- Irving Geis (1908–1997), American artist
- Jacob Geis (1890–1972), German theatre director, screenwriter and film producer
- Johannes Geis (born 1993), German footballer
- Norbert Geis (born 1939), German politician
- Richard E. Geis (1927–2013), American science fiction fan and writer
Usage examples of "geis".
When I was ten feet into the scurrying cross-traffic of the terminal building, amid fluorescence and PA instructions, Glory Doyle-correction-Glory Doyle Geis, or alternately Mrs.
Fortner Geis, came flying at me, to hug and hiccup and make glad sounds, lift a mouth up as high as she could get it, which is perhaps a little over five feet off the ground when she is in four-inch heels.
I found myself wishing that Glory Doyle Geis would find some good and rewarding thing to do with her life from now on in, find someone who would sense how much she had to give, and how badly she needed someone to need her-as Fort Geis had.
Fortner Geis found some leverage that would work on Fortner Geis, and they were smart enough to stay back out of range while they squeezed him.
From what Glory was telling me, I could see how it could happen even with a man like Geis, to whom you could apply the adjective good without feeling self-conscious about it.
Ford and drove out to the Roger Geis home, red brick with stubby white pillars, some fine old trees.
I asked a big winded lady carrying three rackets if Jeanie Geis was on the courts, and between pantings, she pointed to a game of mixed doubles and told me she was the girl on the far court.
Fortner Geis must have had a very sound and good reason for not telling Gloria and Heidi and Roger what he was doing and why he was doing it.
Lake Pointe, the handsome house, snap and hiss of logs aflame, chunky glass in my hand, Glory Doyle Geis in wine slacks and white sweater sitting on a cushion on the raised hearth, dainty, bitter-sweet, semi-sad in the firelight.
And if Geis had been expertly plucked, they would collect on the markers ruthlessly.
A singing fellow had snatched Branton Fortner Geis and let him go loose in a downtown park.
Why would anyone be in danger if Geis was paying off like a good pigeon?
Arrives in the city four or five months before Geis begins the thirteen-month span of Operation Payoff.
No bananas yet, so I called Glory Geis, who chortled happy welcome, and I fenderfought my way to the lake-shore fireside, where once again in the blue jump suit the graceful ragamuffin lady in her second widowhood plied me with a potion which sharpened the taste buds for what the kitchen would provide.
She said Doctor Geis had written her to contact me if she needed help.