git

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Clipping of English Gitxsan or Gitxsan Gitxsanimaax .

git

1. (international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code for Gitxsan .

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Gitxsan terms

• get

• (Received Pronunciation , General American ) IPA ^(key): /ɡɪt/
• Audio (Received Pronunciation ): (file)
• Audio (General American ): (file)
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: ghit (one pronunciation)

From Middle English get ("[illegitimate] offspring"). A southern variant of Scots get ("illegitimate child, brat"), related to beget .^[1]

git (plural gits )

1. (UK , Ireland , slang , derogatory ) A silly, incompetent, stupid , or annoying person (usually a man).
   • 1968, "I'm So Tired", in John Lennon (lyrics), The Beatles , performed by the Beatles:

     Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git

   • 1990, House of Cards , season 1, episode 1:

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

   • 2000 December 18, BBC and Bafta Tribute to Michael Caine , 16:43-17:05:

     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.

   • 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.

   • 2019, The Stupendium, "What a Fowl Day":

     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!

   • 2020 December 16, Christian Wolmar, "Coverage of little-used stations does the railway no favours", in RAIL, page 45:

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

• 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, Ireland and Scotland, get is still used in preference to git.
• The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.^{[2] [3]}

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

1. (now Appalachia , Southern US , African-American Vernacular ) Pronunciation spelling of get .
   • 1920 February 15, Wat Tell, "Cabbages and Kings", in The Wichita Sunday Eagle , volume LXIX, number 69, Wichita, Kan., →OCLC, page 11, column 5:

     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!

• git along
• git-go
• git gud

git

1. (Appalachia , Southern US , informal ) Shoot! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)

   Near-synonyms: go away , leave

git (plural gits )

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

Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.

git

1. (computing ) Alternative letter-case form of Git , a distributed VCS.

• from the git

• GTi , IGT , TGI , TIG , tig

git

1. to get

From Middle Dutch git , get , from Latin gagātēs (likely by way of Old French get , jaiet ), from Ancient Greek γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs), possibly from Γάγας (Gágas, "a town and river in Lycia"). Doublet of gagaat .

• Audio: (file)

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

1. (neuter ) lignite
2. (neuter ) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)

   Synonym: (obsolete) gagaat

3. (masculine ) a stone made of this material

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), "git", in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• IPA ^(key): /ʒi/

git

1. post-1990 spelling of gît (third-person singular present indicative of gésir )

• gith

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [ˈɡɪt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [ˈd͡ʒit]

git n (indeclinable )

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^[3] , London: Macmillan and Co.
  • my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
    

• IPA ^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡiːt/

gīt

1. alternative form of gibet

From Proto-West Germanic *jit , with the *i leveled in from *wit . Further from Proto-Germanic *jut . Cognate with North Frisian jat .

• IPA ^(key): /jit/
• Rhymes: -it

ġit

1. (the second-person dual nominative) you two
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels , Matthew 20:22

     Þā andswarode him sē Hǣlend: "Ġit nyton hwæs ġit biddaþ."

     Then Jesus answered them: "You two don't know what you're asking for."

• Middle English: ȝit , ȝitt , ȝet

• IPA ^(key): /jiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

ġīt

1. alternative form of ġīet

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

git

1. You two; nominative dual of thū

Borrowed from Yiddish גוט (gut).

• IPA ^(key): /ˈɡit/
• Audio: (file)
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: git
• Homophone: gid

git (not comparable , no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial ) just right

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry

git (not comparable )

1. (colloquial ) there you go

   Synonyms: fajnie , gitara , gites

git

1. (colloquial ) excellent!

git m pers

1. (prison slang ) member of a prison subculture that occupies the highest position in the internal hierarchy

• "git", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• "git", in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)
• Klemens Stępniak; Zbigniew Podgórzec (2013), Słownik gwar przestępczych [Dictionary of criminal slangs] (in Polish), Kraków: Mireki, →ISBN, page 103

git

1. song

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

git

1. second-person singular imperative of gitmek

git f

1. goodness

git (genitive gita , plural gits )

1. law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards)

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