Wikimore

See also: GIT, Git, and gît

Translingual

Symbol

gitCategory:Translingual lemmas#GIT Category:Translingual symbols#GIT Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#GIT Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

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

English

(British Category:British English#GIT, Ireland Category:Irish English#GIT, slang Category:English slang#GIT, derogatory Category:English derogatory terms#GIT) 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
  Category:English terms with quotations#GIT
- 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
  Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
  Category:English terms with quotations#GIT
- 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#GIT
  Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#GIT
- 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!
  Category:English terms with quotations#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, [...].
  Category:English terms with quotations#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, 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]

Derived terms

gittish

Translations

A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person

Category:Entries with translation boxes#GIT

Czech: blbec (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#GIT, hňup (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#GIT
Danish: idiot (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#GIT, spade (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#GIT
Dutch: ouwe lul mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#GIT (literally "old dick")
French: con (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#GIT, taré (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#GIT
German: Idiot (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#GIT, Blödmann (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#GIT, Dummkopf (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#GIT
Russian: мерза́вец (ru) m (merzávec)Category:Terms with Russian translations#GIT, дура́к (ru) m (durák)Category:Terms with Russian translations#GIT
Spanish: pendejo (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#GIT, bastardo (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#GIT, cretino (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#GIT
Turkish: aptal (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#GIT, salak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#GIT

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “In what context did the interjection arise? Is it a clipping of get back (“to move back”, used imperatively)?”

Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#GIT

Verb

git (third-person singular simple present gits, present participle gitting, simple past got, past participle gotten)Category:English lemmas#GIT Category:English verbs#GIT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(now Appalachia Category:Appalachian English#GIT, Southern US Category:Southern US English#GIT, African-American Vernacular Category:African-American Vernacular English#GIT) Pronunciation spelling of getCategory:English pronunciation spellings#GIT.
- 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!
  Category:English terms with quotations#GIT

Derived terms

Interjection

gitCategory:English lemmas#GIT Category:English interjections#GIT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(Appalachia Category:Appalachian English#GIT, Southern US Category:Southern US English#GIT, informal Category:English informal terms#GIT) shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
Near-synonyms: go away, leave

Etymology 3

Noun

git (plural gits)Category:English lemmas#GIT Category:English nouns#GIT Category:English countable nouns#GIT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)

Etymology 4

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

Proper noun

gitCategory:English lemmas#GIT Category:English proper nouns#GIT Category:English uncountable nouns#GIT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(computing Category:en:Computing#GIT) Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.

References

↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “git”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
↑ Geoffrey Hughes (2006), An encyclopedia of swearing‎, →ISBN, page 477
↑ M. Hunt, Alison Maloney (2006), Joy of Swearing‎, →ISBN

Anagrams

GTi, IGT, TGI, TIG, tig

Category:en:People#GIT

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Verb

gitCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English lemmas#GIT Category:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English verbs#GIT Category:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

to get

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch Category:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#GIT Category:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#GIT git, get, from Latin Category:Dutch terms derived from Latin#GIT gagātēs (likely by way of Old French Category:Dutch terms derived from Old French#GIT get, jaiet), from Ancient Greek Category:Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek#GIT γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs), possibly from Γάγας (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”). Doublet of gagaatCategory:Dutch doublets#GIT.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#GIT

Noun

git n or f (plural gitten, diminutive gitje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#GIT Category:Dutch nouns#GIT Category:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#GIT Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Dutch neuter nouns#GIT Category:Dutch feminine nouns#GIT Category:Dutch nouns with multiple genders#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(neuter) lignite
(neuter) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)
Synonym: (obsolete) gagaat
(masculine) a stone made of this material

Derived terms

gitzwart (“jet-black”)

References

van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “git”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʒi/Category:French 1-syllable words#GIT Category:French terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT

Verb

gitCategory:French non-lemma forms#GIT Category:French verb forms#GIT Category:French entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

post-1990 spelling of gît (third-person singular present indicative of gésir)Category:French post-1990 spellings#GIT

Latin

Alternative forms

gith

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Latin entries#GIT

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪt]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#GIT Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒit]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#GIT Category:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT

Noun

git n (indeclinable)Category:Latin lemmas#GIT Category:Latin nouns#GIT Category:Latin indeclinable nouns#GIT Category:Latin neuter indeclinable nouns#GIT Category:Latin entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Latin neuter nouns#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

A plant (Nigella sativa), variously named black cumin, Roman coriander Category:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#Roman%20coriander, or melanthion Category:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook

Category:la:Plants#GIT

Middle High German

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡiːt/Category:Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT

Verb

gītCategory:Middle High German non-lemma forms#GIT Category:Middle High German verb forms#GIT Category:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

alternative form of gibet

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic Category:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#GIT Category:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#GIT *jit, with the *i leveled in from *wit. Further from Proto-Germanic Category:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#GIT Category:Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GIT *jut. Cognate with North Frisian jat.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ġitCategory:Old English lemmas#GIT Category:Old English pronouns#GIT Category:Old English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(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."
  Category:Old English terms with quotations#GIT

Declension

Old English personal pronouns
			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	first person		iċ	mē, mec	mē	mīn
	second person		þū	þē, þec	þē	þīn
	third person	neuter	hit		him	his
		masculine	hē	hine	him	his
		feminine	hēo	hīe	hire
dual	first person		wit	unc, uncit	unc	uncer
dual	second person		ġit	inc, incit	inc	incer
plural	first person		wē	ūs, ūsiċ	ūs	ūre, ūser
	second person		ġē	ēow, ēowiċ	ēow	ēower
	third person		hīe		him	heora

Descendants

Middle English: ȝit, ȝitt, ȝet

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adverb

ġītCategory:Old English lemmas#GIT Category:Old English adverbs#GIT Category:Old English entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

alternative form of ġīet

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic Category:Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#GIT Category:Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#GIT *jit, from Proto-Germanic Category:Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#GIT Category:Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic#GIT *jut, remodeled in Proto-Northwest Germanic to *jit by analogy with *wit.

Pronoun

gitCategory:Old Saxon lemmas#GIT Category:Old Saxon pronouns#GIT Category:Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

You two; nominative dual of thūCategory:Old Saxon links with redundant target parameters#GIT

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronouns
			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik	mī, me, mik	mī	mīn
	2nd person		thū	thī, thik	thī	thīn
	3rd person	m	hē	ina	imu	is
		f	siu	sia	iru	ira
		n	it		it	is

dual	1st person		wit	unk		unkero, unka
dual	2nd person		git	ink		inker, inka

plural	1st person		wī, we	ūs, unsik	ūs	ūser
	2nd person		gī, ge	eu, iu, iuu		euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera
	3rd person	m	sia		im	iro
		f	sia
		n	siu

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

git

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Yiddish גוט (gut)bor.

Polish git

Borrowed from Yiddish גוט (gut).

Category:Polish entries referencing missing etymons#GIT Category:Polish terms derived from Yiddish#GIT Category:Polish terms borrowed from Yiddish#GIT Category:Pages with etymology trees#GIT Category:Polish entries with etymology trees#GIT Category:Polish entries with etymology texts#GIT Category:Pages using etymon with no ID#GIT

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡit/Category:Polish 1-syllable words#GIT Category:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT
Audio: (file)
Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#GIT
Rhymes: -it Category:Rhymes:Polish/it#GIT Category:Rhymes:Polish/it/1 syllable#GIT
Syllabification: git
Homophone: gidCategory:Polish terms with homophones#GIT

Adjective

git (not comparable, no derived adverb)Category:Polish lemmas#GIT Category:Polish adjectives#GIT Category:Polish uncomparable adjectives#GIT Category:Polish entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(colloquial Category:Polish colloquialisms#GIT) just right
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry

Adverb

git (not comparable)Category:Polish lemmas#GIT Category:Polish adverbs#GIT Category:Polish uncomparable adverbs#GIT Category:Polish entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(colloquial Category:Polish colloquialisms#GIT) there you go
Synonyms: fajnie, gitara, gites

Interjection

gitCategory:Polish lemmas#GIT Category:Polish interjections#GIT Category:Polish entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(colloquial Category:Polish colloquialisms#GIT) excellent!

Noun

git m persCategory:Polish lemmas#GIT Category:Polish nouns#GIT Category:Polish entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Polish masculine nouns#GIT Category:Polish personal nouns#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

(prison slang Category:Polish prison slang#GIT) member of a prison subculture that occupies the highest position in the internal hierarchy

Declension

Declension of git

	singular	plural
nominative	gitCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT	gici/gity (deprecative)
genitive	gitaCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	gitówCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT
dative	gitowiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	gitomCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT
accusative	gitaCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	gitówCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT
instrumental	gitemCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	gitamiCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT
locative	gicieCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	gitachCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT
vocative	gicieCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT	giciCategory:Polish links with redundant wikilinks#GIT Category:Polish links with redundant alt parameters#GIT Category:Polish links with manual fragments#GIT

Derived terms

adjectives

nouns

Related terms

adjectives

gitesowy

adverbs

Rohingya

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

Category:Requests for pronunciation in Rohingya entries#GIT

Noun

gitCategory:Rohingya lemmas#GIT Category:Rohingya nouns#GIT Category:Rohingya entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

song

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡit/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#GIT
Audio: (file)
Category:Turkish terms with audio pronunciation#GIT
Hyphenation: git

Verb

gitCategory:Turkish non-lemma forms#GIT Category:Turkish verb forms#GIT Category:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

second-person singular imperative of gitmek

Vilamovian

Noun

git fCategory:Vilamovian lemmas#GIT Category:Vilamovian nouns#GIT Category:Vilamovian entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Vilamovian feminine nouns#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

goodness

Volapük

Noun

git (genitive gita, plural gits)Category:Volapük lemmas#GIT Category:Volapük nouns#GIT Category:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#GIT Category:Pages with entries#GIT Category:Pages with 14 entries#GIT

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

Declension

Declension of *git*
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	git	gits
Genitive	gita	gitas
Dative	gite	gites
Accusative	giti	gitis
Predicative¹	gitu	gitus
Vocative	o git	o gits

Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

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

Category:vo:Law#GIT

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “git”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

[2] Geoffrey Hughes (2006), An encyclopedia of swearing‎, →ISBN, page 477

[3] M. Hunt, Alison Maloney (2006), Joy of Swearing‎, →ISBN

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git

Translingual

Symbol

See also

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Usage notes

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

Derived terms

Interjection

Etymology 3

Noun

Etymology 4

Proper noun

References

See also

Anagrams

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Verb

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

References

French

Pronunciation

Verb

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Middle High German

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Old English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adverb

Old Saxon

Etymology

Pronoun

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Adverb

Interjection

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Rohingya

Pronunciation

Noun

Turkish

Pronunciation

Verb

Vilamovian

Noun

Volapük

Noun

Declension