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  • Vereinigte Staaten//ɡɪt//

A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).

Substantiv

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    SlangA silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).

    Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git

    Bit of a flash git, don't you think?

    Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer. Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.

    Eventually God gives the donkey a voice and it says, "why're you beating me you great stupid git? It's the angel with the sword that you gotta be careful of," or words to that effect.

Herkunft

From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.

Verb

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    Variante von getPronunciation spelling of get.

    She say fust git a dime’s wuth of potatoes; den she say ‘No, git ten cents wuth of beans,’ den she change her min’ agin an’ say git a dime’s wuth of cabbages, an’ suh, when I brung them cabbages home, I’ll be dinged if she didn’t go an’ bang me on the haid with a coolin’ iron fo’ not gittin’ a quatah’s wuth of livah!

Interjektion

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    umgangssprachlichShoot! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)

Substantiv

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    Variante von geatAlternative form of geat (“a channel in metal casting”)

Eigenname

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    Variante von GitAlternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.

Herkunft

Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.

Formen

Plural
gits
Präteritum
got
Partizip II
gotten
Partizip I
gitting
3. Person Singular
gits
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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