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Post by Alan Petersen on Feb 15, 2016 13:03:26 GMT -5
Life's Too Short is hilarious and there is a scene of Warwick Davis insulting Sting that cracks me up. He calls him a git or jit? What does that mean? You can see clip below:
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Feb 15, 2016 13:33:48 GMT -5
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Post by Suzy on Feb 15, 2016 14:18:10 GMT -5
git with a hard g. Means idiot or something like that.
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Feb 15, 2016 17:45:14 GMT -5
This was my fave bit of the Wikipedia page
It is usually an insult, more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat
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Post by Pru Freda on Feb 16, 2016 14:51:38 GMT -5
Yes, it's a general term of (mild) abuse. It's pronounced, as Suzy said, with a hard "g" like get - of which it is a derivitive.
AFAIK, it is only applied to men never women, and often preceded by old: You old git, you stupid old git, you randy old git, etc.
Like a lot of other things, intonation is everything. Said in the right way, it can almost be an endearment you daft/silly (old) git.
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