Git

/ɡɪt/ · noun

Meaning

(British, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (British, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
2. (now Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of get.
3. (Appalachia, Southern US, informal) shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
4. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)
5. (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.

Example Sentences

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.

Here we see the common domestic goose, Anser cygnoides domesticus. Found across the British countryside, it is known for its distinctive call; proud, majestic stature; and for being an all-round inconsiderate little git!

I'm not being a miserable old git here. I like a laugh as much as anyone, [...].

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!

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• gits
• get
• gitting
• got
• gotten

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