git
shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
Interjection
- shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
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Proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.
Origin
Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.
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Noun Ireland, UK
- A 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 - 1968, “I'm So Tired”, in John Lennon (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by the Beatles:
- Bit of a flash git, don't you think? - 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
- 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...
Origin
From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.
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arsehole ass assface asshat asshole asswipe bastard bitch blackguard blaggard buttlicker buttmunch carrion cockhead cocklicker cocksucker cowson crud cunt dick dickhead dickwad dickweed dipshit
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Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)
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arsehole ass assface asshat asshole asswipe bastard bitch blackguard blaggard buttlicker buttmunch carrion cockhead cocklicker cocksucker cowson crud cunt dick dickhead dickwad dickweed dipshit
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Verb
- Pronunciation 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...