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Git
//ɡɪt// intj, name, noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Intj
- 1 shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal) Appalachia, Southern-US, informal
Proper Noun
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS. alt-of
Noun
- 1 A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man). British, Ireland, derogatory, slang
"Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git"
- 2 Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting) alt-of, alternative
- 3 a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible wordnet
Verb
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of get. Appalachia, Southern-US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"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!"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.
Etymology 2
Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.
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