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Need a Little Walking Around Geetus?

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in , remembers her used to ask the kids if they needed any geetus, meaning “Do you need any money?” This word for money is spelled several ways, including geedus, geetis, geetas, gheetus, and geets, as in Give me some geets. Its origin is uncertain. This is part of a complete episode.

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