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git

noun

  1. foolish person
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡɪt/

intj

  1. 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.

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Git, a distributed VCS.

noun

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

verb

  1. 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!