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
- bureau chief
- bureaucracy
- bureaucrat
- bureaucratese
- bureaucratic
- bureaucratically
- bureaucratise
- bureaucratism
- bureaucratist
- bureaucratization
- bureaucratize
- bureau de change
- bureauism
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- bureau of investigation
- Bureau of State Security
- bureau plat
- buret
- burette
- burfi
- burg
- burgage
- Burgas
- burgee
- Burgenland