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English

Alternative forms

• get

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: ghit (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

git (plural gits)

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
   • 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.

Usage notes

• 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, Northern Ireland and Scotland, get is still used in preference to git. In the Republic of Ireland, get, rather than git is used.
• The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get, begone.
2. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get (leave; scram; begone).

Etymology 2

Noun

git (plural gits)

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

See also

• git gud

References

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, tig

Dutch

Etymology

From French jet, or directly from Latin gag?t?s after Ancient Greek ??????? (Gagát?s), from ????? (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

1. (neuter) lignite
2. (neuter) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)
3. (masculine) a stone made of this material

Derived terms

• gitzwart (jet-black, the blackest black)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i/

Verb

git

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

git n (indeclinable)

1. A plant (Nigella sativa), variously named black cumin, Roman coriander, or melanthion.

References

• 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.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *jit, from Proto-Germanic *jut. Cognate with North Frisian jat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jit/

Pronoun

?it

1. you two (nominative dual form of þ?)

Related terms

• incit
• inc
• incer

Descendants

• Middle English: ?it, ?itt, ?et

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Pronoun

git

1. You two; nominative dual of th?

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From Yiddish ???? (gut), from Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/

Interjection

git

1. (colloquial) excellent!

Adjective

git

1. (colloquial) just right

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• git in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• git in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/
• Hyphenation: git

Verb

git

1. second-person singular imperative of gitmek

Antonyms

• gitme
• gel

Vilamovian

Noun

git f

1. goodness

Volapük

Noun

git (nominative plural gits)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• gitav (“jurisprudence”)
• gitavan (“jurist”)
• gitavik (“juristic”)
• gitäd (“judiciary”)
• gität (“right”)
• gitätön (“have the right”)
• gitik (“juridicial”)
• gitod (“justification”)
• gitöf (“legitimacy”)
• gitöfik (“legitimate”)

English

Etymology

Shortened from citizen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

cit (plural cits)

1. (derogatory, now rare) A citizen; a townsman, city dweller.
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees

     […] 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 becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.

   • 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza

     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.

   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     “If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?”

Derived terms

• citess, cittess

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t]

Noun

cit m

1. feeling
2. emotion

   Synonym: emoce

Declension

Derived terms

• bezcitný m
• citový

Related terms

• cítit

Further reading

• cit in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• cit in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Gallo

Etymology

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

Noun

cit m (plural cits)

1. cider

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??it/, /t??it/

Adjective

cit

1. little, small

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Verb

cit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ci?

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?id/

Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +? bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)

Verb

cit

1. though… (they) are (subjunctive)
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207^b11

Mutation

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

cit

1. root of cintayati