Grit vs Gitty - What's the difference?
grit | gitty |
Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
Inedible particles in food.
Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
To cover with grit .
To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
* Goldsmith
(usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat, oats
(usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
A narrow, pedestrian, passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.
As nouns the difference between grit and gitty
is that grit is (canada|politics) a member or supporter of the liberal party of canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the quebec provincial wing) while gitty is a narrow, pedestrian, passageway in a residential area, between high brick walls, wooden fences, hedges, etc.As an adjective grit
is (canada|politics) of or belonging to the liberal party of canada.grit
English
Etymology 1
With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).Noun
(-)- The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
- It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
- That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
- I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
Derived terms
* *See also
* debris * mortar and pestle * swarfVerb
- We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
- He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
- The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
(etyl) gryt ‘bran, chaff’, from (etyl) grytt, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* girt * triggitty
English
Noun
(gitties)See also
*alley *alleyway *entry *gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel *jitty *passage *shut *snicket *twitchel *wyndReferences
* Entry: [http://http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entry] * Jitty:BBC Derbyshire Dictionary feature. * Gitty:
BBC Derby Conversations feature.