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
- AT and T
- a tangled web
- at any price
- at any rate
- at a (or one) stroke
- at a (or the) minimum
- atap
- at a premium
- at a price
- at a profit
- at a push
- ataractic
- at a range of
- at a rate of knots
- ataraxia
- ataraxic
- ataraxy
- at arm's length
- Atascadero
- at a stretch
- at a time
- Atatürk, Kemal
- at a venture
- atavism
- atavistic