cit

: a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.

Noun archaic, derogatory

  1. : a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
    • […] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions...
    • Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit. - 1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […];...
    • Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north. - 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza:

Origin

Clipping of citizen.

Forms

cits cit.

Derived

citess cittess

Noun abbreviation, alt of

  1. Clipping of citation

    Related: cite

Origin

Clipping of citation.

Forms

cits cit.