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  • Did someone call you a git, Glenn? How rude. Generally, "git" is just another term for "idiot", "wanker", "jerk", etc, etc. Example: "Sod off, you great git". Translation: "Please go away, you are bothering me and I do not think highly of you".
  • I thought it meant that people who's names that start with G were to get stuffed. Just kidding. Jeez... That's why Larry the Cable guy says Git 'er Done.
  • It's a mild insult somewhere stronger than "idiot" but a lot less coarse than "w**nker". Mostly it's directed at someone who is being obnoxious, or who's just got away with something by the skin of their teeth, or who got a lucky break they probably didn't deserve (commonly heard: "cheeky git", "smug git", "lucky git")- to me it generally suggests an irritating smugness.
  • They think you're a lawyer.
  • I think the dictionary definition is someone who is contemptible. I use it quite a bit so I'm glad I'm using it right.
  • One explanation I heard for the origin of the word 'git', was that it is the term used to describe a pregnant goldfish, how true this is I'm not sure! Other good ones are 'pillock' and 'wazzock' (which alledgedly springs from the Maori word 'wazook', describing someone who spits gum onto the ground), generally used on idiots as in "you dozy pillock" "you stupid wazzock".
  • It's a very non-specific kind of insult, it means kind of 'generally contemptible person'.
  • It means a worthless,contemptible, useless,or foolish person.There is also an expression called Jammy Git, and this means the person above has got lucky and won something.

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