git
/ɡɪt
/noun British informal
An unpleasant or contemptible person: that mean old git a warped, twisted little git...
- But we need to improve and revitalise, not only for the old gits like me.
- Were the whingeing old gits right all along, then?
- We watched a few more songs down at the front then retreated to the ballroom bar to watch the rest of the set with the other old gits.
Origin
1940s: variant of get (sense 2 of the noun).
Rhymes
- private secretaryship
- private sector
- private service
- private ship of war
- private soldier
- private trade
- private trader
- private trading
- private treaty
- private view
- private viewer
- private viewing
- private war
- private ward
- private wire
- private world
- privation
- privatisation
- privatise
- privatism
- privatistic
- privative
- privatively
- privatization
- privatize