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
- Sittang
- sittella
- sitter
- sit through
- sit tight
- sitting
- Sitting Bull
- sitting duck
- sitting room
- sitting target
- sitting tenant
- sitting trot
- situate
- situation
- situational
- situationally
- situation comedy
- situation ethics
- situationism
- situationist
- situations vacant (or wanted)
- sit-up
- sit-up-and-beg
- sit up (and take notice)
- sit-upon