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nomverbeinterjectionnomnom propreattesté dans les dialogues

  • États-Unis//ɡɪt//

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

nom

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    argotA 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.

Étymologie

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

verbe

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    Variante de 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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    familierShoot! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)

nom

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

nom propre

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

Étymologie

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

Formes

pluriel
gits
passé
got
participe passé
gotten
participe présent
gitting
3ᵉ personne du singulier
gits
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).