git

[ git ]

noun

1. British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.

git

/ ɡɪt /

noun

1. a contemptible person, often a fool
2. a bastard

Word History and Origins

Origin of git¹

First recorded in 1945–50; variant of get

Word History and Origins

Origin of git¹

C20: from get (in the sense: to beget, hence a bastard, fool)

Example Sentences

Hubbard attributed the disease to “an intense desire to ‘git thar’ and an awful feeling that you cannot.”

From Salon

In the past, words or phrases deemed to have stepped over the line include "impertinent dog", "cad", "blethering", "guttersnipe" and "git".

From BBC

"I think they like the way I put things. Instead of being called an old git or something they say 'that's my grandad'."

From BBC

Spike Lee’s “He Got Game,” Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday,” and the satire “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” in which he parodied the blaxploitation genre.

From Washington Times

The website of Britain’s Parliament lists several other words that have, in the long history of vituperation in the House of Commons, led to objections: “blackguard, coward, git, guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, swine, stool pigeon and traitor” — most of which were probably last uttered a couple of centuries back.

From Washington Post

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