git
noun/ɡɪt/US
Etymology
Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.
- inherited from get
Definitions
A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
- Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git
- Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
Pronunciation spelling of get.
shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
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Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)
Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.
The neighborhood
- synonymarsehole
- synonymass
- synonymassface
- synonymasshat
- synonymasshole
- synonymasswipe
- synonymbastard
- synonymbitch
- synonymblackguard
- synonymblaggard
- synonymbuttlicker
- synonymbuttmunch
- neighboranus
- neighborpenis
- neighborperson
- neighborfool
- neighboridiot
- neighbortroublemaker
- neighborvillain
- neighborworthless person
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for git. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA