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
- regionalistic
- regionality
- regionalization
- regionalize
- regionally
- regional metamorphism
- regionary
- regionary bishop
- regionary deacon
- regioned
- regioselective
- regioselectivity
- regiospecific
- regiospecificity
- Regious
- regisseur
- register
- register act
- register board
- register book
- registered debt
- registered mail
- registered nurse
- registered post
- registerer