git
noun
- foolish person
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɡɪt/
intj
- shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
name
Etymology: Likely chosen for its shortness and pronounceability, but various other explanations and backronyms were offered after its introduction.
- Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.
noun
- Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of get.
“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!”