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My secret is out!
In Response To: Meaning of "Git" *LINK* ()

I was hoping no one would discover my true identity as a pregnant camel!

: I wasn't sure what the word "git"
: means, so here is the entry from the
: English-to-American Dictionary, linked
: below.

:

: git n.

: Tricky one to define. What it doesn't mean is
: what The Waltons meant when they said it (as
: in "git outta here, John-Boy").
: Git is technically an insult but has a
: twinge of jealousy to it. You'd call someone
: a git if they'd won the Readers' Digest
: Prize Draw, outsmarted you in a battle of
: wits or been named in Bill Gates' Last Will
: and Testament because of a spelling mistake.
: Like sod, it has a friendly tone to it. I'm
: told it derives from Arabic, where it
: describes a pregnant female camel, of all
: things. I'm also told that it is a
: contraction of the word
: "illegitimate" - you be the judge.
: OK . . . thanks to "tester123" for
: the posting . . . it's always fun to learn
: interesting new words.

: Jeff

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