git
nounverbinterjectionnounproper nounattested in dialogue
- United States//ɡɪt//
A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
noun
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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.
Etymology
From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.
verb
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Variant of 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!
interjection
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informalShoot! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
noun
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Variant of geatAlternative form of geat (“a channel in metal casting”)
proper noun
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Variant of GitAlternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.
Etymology
Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.
Forms
- plural
- gits
- past tense
- got
- past participle
- gotten
- present participle
- gitting
- third person singular
- gits
git · A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
Giuseppe · A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Joseph.give · To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to…given · Considering; taking into account.