Forget vs Forgit - What's the difference?
forget | forgit |
To lose remembrance of.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To unintentionally not do, neglect.
To unintentionally leave something behind.
To cease remembering.
(slang) (euphemism for) fuck, screw (a mild oath).
* {{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858, chapter=, edition=
, passage=D-don't forgit your old sooty friend. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=Edward Stratemeyer, title=The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle, chapter=, edition=
, passage="We are going to run them machines an' don't you forgit it," mumbled Hellig, and lurched forward. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=B. M. Bower, title=Cow-Country, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You shook on it, don't forgit that, young feller." }}
As verbs the difference between forget and forgit
is that forget is to lose remembrance of while forgit is .forget
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Verb
- I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
- For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten .
- I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
- I forgot my car keys.
- Let's just forget about it.
- Forget you!
Usage notes
* In sense 1 and 4 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In sense 2 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. * SeeSynonyms
* obliviate, overlook, pass over, disrememberAntonyms
* acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisceDerived terms
* forget about * forgetful * forget-me-not * forget oneself * forgettable * forgetter * unforgettableReferences
* *forgit
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