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git 1

(gĭt)
v. Chiefly New England, Midland US, & Southern US
Variant of get1.

git 2

(gĭt)
n. Chiefly British Slang
An unpleasant, contemptible, or frustratingly obtuse person.
[Variant of get, offspring, bastard, contemptible person; see get1.]
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git

(ɡɪt)
n
1. a contemptible person, often a fool
2. a bastard
[C20: from get (in the sense: to beget, hence a bastard, fool)]
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git

(gɪt)

v. Dial.
get.
pron: See get.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.git - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptiblegit - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
dirty dog, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot, bum, crumb, rat
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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Translations

git

[gɪt] N (Brit) → cretino/a m/f
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git

[ˈgɪt] n (British) → con(ne) m/f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

git

n (inf: = stupid person) → Schwachkopf m, → Depp m (dial); a miserable old git → ein alter Miesepeter (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up.
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"You'd better b'lieve your uncle Jerry don't propose to leave till he gits this thing fixed up," cried the old man delightedly.
`How does the little Temperance girl git along?' asks mother.
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And wid that the widdy, she gits up from the sofy, and makes the swatest curthchy nor iver was seen; and thin down she sits like an angel; and thin, by the powers, it was that little spalpeen Mounseer Maiter-di-dauns that plumped his silf right down by the right side of her.
At the hearin' of this, ye may swear, though, I was as mad as a grasshopper, but I remimbered that I was Sir Pathrick O'Grandison, Barronitt, and that it wasn't althegither gentaal to lit the anger git the upper hand o' the purliteness, so I made light o' the matter and kipt dark, and got quite sociable wid the little chap, and afther a while what did he do but ask me to go wid him to the widdy's, saying he wud give me the feshionable inthroduction to her leddyship.
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The only way to git him to do anything is to coax him to do the opposite.
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She makes me get up just at the same time every morning; she makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed; I got to wear them blamed clothes that just smothers me, Tom; they don't seem to any air git through 'em, somehow; and they're so rotten nice that I can't set down, nor lay down, nor roll around anywher's; I hain't slid on a cellar-door for -- well, it 'pears to be years; I got to go to church and sweat and sweat -- I hate them ornery sermons!
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We thought we'd lost forty-two men by straight count, but if they keep on a-comin' this way, we'll git th' comp'ny all back by mornin' yit.
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"Pap's so po' he cain't run me no mo', so I want to git a show somers if I kin, 'taint no diffunce what--I'm strong and hearty, and I don't turn my back on no kind of work, hard nur soft."
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When I come nights I can't git no rest 'cause yer allus poundin' a kid.
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"De fac' is, ole marster kin git along better when young marster's away den he kin when he's in de town; yes, en he love him better, too; so he gives him fifty dollahs a month--"
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"Haul up, Penn," he said, laughing, "er she 'll git stuck again."
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