Gig vs Git - What's the difference?

gig | git |

As a noun gig

is gig (performing engagement by a musical group, usually used when referring to events with small audience and contemporary music such as rock or punk).

As an initialism git is

; gastrointestinal tract.

gig

English

Etymology 1

Akin to Old Norse .

Noun

(en noun)

(informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.

I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .

Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?

Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.

(informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.

I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .

Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!

A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.

* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:

the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.

(archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.

(South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.

I received gigs for having buttons undone.

Verb

To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.

To engage in musical performances.

The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time

To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.

His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.

(US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.

His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.

Etymology 2

A shortening of (gigabyte).

Noun

(en-noun)

(colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.

This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?

How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .

Etymology 3

(etyl) gigge.

Noun

(en noun)

A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Etymology 4

Probably from (etyl) (lena) .

Verb

To engender.

(Dryden)

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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git

English

Alternative forms

* get

Etymology 1

From (etyl) , related to beget. (from Online Etymology Dictionary)

Noun

(en noun)

(British, slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.

(British, slang, pejorative) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying or childish person.

Usage notes

* 'Git' is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than a true profanity like wanker or arsehole, and may often be used affectionately between friends. 'Get' can also be used, with a subtle change of meaning. 'You cheeky get!' is slightly less harsh than 'You cheeky git!'. * 'Git' is frequently used in conjunction with another word to achieve a more specific meaning. For instance a "smarmy git" refers to a person of a slimy, ingratiating disposition; a "jammy git" would be a person with undeserved luck. The phrase "grumpy old git", denoting a cantankerous old man, is used with particular frequency. * In parts of northern , 'get' is still used in preference to 'git'. In the Republic of Ireland, 'get', rather than 'git' is used. * The word has been ruled by the .

Verb

(gitt)

(Appalachian, Southern US, AAVE) To get.

(Appalachian, Southern US, AAVE) To leave.

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(channel in metal casting)

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