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Is it not a corruption of the word 'get', meaning bastard/illegitimate child? As such it's more of a general insult than anything in particular.
by rm445 13y ago
Is it not a corruption of the word 'get', meaning bastard/illegitimate child? As such it's more of a general insult than anything in particular.
- noir_lord 13y agoI'm English and 'get' and 'git' are used in different contexts. "This job will be a complete git to do" and "He's always been a bit of an old git" vs "He is a complete get" As for your question, the only source for git been a corruption of get I could find is a wikipedia post which has a big [citation needed] next to it and the sentence is incomplete.
- twic 13y agoI'm English, and i thought "get" was just some weird provincial pronunciation of "git". As for etymology, the OED thinks it came from "get": http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/78536?redirectedFrom=git#eid http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/78536?redirectedFrom=git#eid