git

• get

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: ghit (one pronunciation)

From Middle English get (“offspring", especially "illegitimate offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget. (from Online Etymology Dictionary)

git (plural gits)

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A contemptible person.
2. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

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

   • 2007, Greg Weston, The Man Upstairs, →ISBN, page 124:

     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.

• 'Git' is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than a true profanity like wanker or arsehole, and may often be used affectionately between friends. 'Get' can also be used, with a subtle change of meaning. 'You cheeky get!' is slightly less harsh than 'You cheeky git!'.
• 'Git' is frequently used in conjunction with another word to achieve a more specific meaning. For instance a "smarmy git" refers to a person of a slimy, ingratiating disposition; a "jammy git" would be a person with undeserved luck. The phrase "grumpy old git", denoting a cantankerous old man, is used with particular frequency.
• In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, 'get' is still used in preference to 'git'. In the Republic of Ireland, 'get', rather than 'git' is used.
• The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.

git (third-person singular simple present gitting, present participle got, simple past and past participle gotten)

1. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To get.
2. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To leave.

git (plural gits)

1. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)

• git gud

• GTi, IGT, tig

From French jet, or directly from Latin gagātēs after Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs), from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”).

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git n or f (plural gitten, diminutive gitje n)

1. (neuter) lignite
2. (neuter) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)
3. (masculine) a stone made of this material

• gitzwart (jet-black, the blackest black)

• IPA^(key): /ʒi/

git

1. Alternative spelling of gît (third-person singular present indicative of gésir)

This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.

Compare Hebrew גַּד‎ (gad)

git n (invariable)

1. A plant (Nigella sativa), variously named black cumin, Roman coriander, or melanthion.

• git in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• git in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
    

• IPA^(key): /jit/

ġit

1. you two (nominative dual form of þū)

• Middle English: ȝit, ȝitt, ȝet

From Proto-Germanic *jut, remodeled in Proto-Northwest Germanic to *jit by analogy with *wit.

git

1. You two; nominative dual form of thū.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲit/

git

1. (colloquial) excellent!

git

1. (colloquial) just right

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡit/
• Hyphenation: git

git

1. singular imperative of gitmek

• gitme

git f

1. goodness