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In the BBC TV comedy show Till Death us do Part (1965-1975) the bigoted patriarch of the family, Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) repeatedly referred to his son-in-law, Mike Rawlins ( Anthony Booth) as a "randy scouse git". John Lennon calls Walter Raleigh "such a stupid get" in The Beatles song, " I'm So Tired".

The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.

In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland get is still used in preference to git. A shortening of beget, get insinuates that the recipient is someone's misbegotten offspring and therefore a bastard. It was popularly used by the British army in the First World War at Gallipoli, the Egyptian and Mesopotamian campaigns, where the British would abuse their Turkish adversaries by shouting the vulgar phrase siktir git! (fuck you), mistakenly believing that git was part of the offensive expression meaning “you” (but in a derogatory way).Īn alternative suggestion for the etymology is that it is an alteration of the word get, dating back to the 14th century. The word git first appeared in print in 1946, but is undoubtedly older. Typically a good-natured admonition with a strong implication of familiarity, git is more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat when offence is intended.

Īs a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less pejorative than berk. Git / ˈ ɡ ɪ t/ is a term of insult denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. For other uses, see Git (disambiguation).
