Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to fit, to suit, to behave as required or expected; usu. in phr. it won’t gee, it doesn’t suit, it doesn’t work.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: It wont Gee, it won’t Hit, or go.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy V 83: If Miss prove peevish and will not gee / [...] / find out a fairer, a kinder than she.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: It won’t gee; it won’t hit or do, it does not suit or fit.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 104: ‘It vont Jee!’ [...] it will not succeed.
1831		Navy at Home III 53: Call in a constable — we’ll see, if such goings on’ll gee here, in the Dolphin — and my good name ruinated!
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) n.p.: GEE, to agree with, or be congenial to a person.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1887		Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Nov. 7/3: Italian opera ‘gees’ in a general way at Melbourne Royal, but not to any alarming degree.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 May 24/3: Despite a fat balance to credit of the local Rugby Union, there are signs that football isn’t going to ‘gee’ this season in the South Island of M.L.
1904		West. Australian 12 Apr. 9/2: They all reckon they can bring [...] in enough sentiment to make it gee.
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Oct. 13/3: With us there are no idle rich, / They’re captains all of industry. / They bake, or build, or sow, or stitch, / And make the clashing engines gee.
1914		W.H. Allen ‘Further Word-Lists – Pennsylvania’ in DN IV:ii 158: gee, v. To agree; suit ‘Them two things don’t gee’.
1925		Odum & Johnson Negro and His Songs (1964) 154: Yes, I hollow at the mule, an’ the mule would not gee.