Can Somebody Please Tell Me

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No: HPFGUIDX 144489

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> Betsy Hp:
> Can I just add how *tired* I am of the word?  It's like it's the 
> only British insult out there, which I *know* can't be true.  And 
> I'm not sure it really even applies to Snape.  He's many things, but 
> stupid or foolish (the definition I found) is not one of them.  It's 
> weird what fandom will glomp onto.
> 
>

Lolita:

I agree with Geoff. 'Git' is hardly a word one would consider polite. 
According to Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD ROM,
git is 'a person, especially a man, considered to be unpleasant'. I 
would say that this is a nicet insult for Snape, although I, myself, 
believe that our wonderful English language has far more interesting 
nicknames Snape could be treated to. And as for the 'greasy git' 
thing, I don't think it's canon either. The closest to that soubriquet 
that I have found in canon was 'slimy, oily, greasy-haired kid' (GoF, 
UK children's hardback, p. 460), curtesy of Sirius Black. And 
something to do with the word 'git', at the beginning of OotP, but I 
am too lazy and tired to go looking for it now. But there are no 
words 'greasy' and 'git' combined - at least I haven't been able to 
find them, which doesn't mean that the phrase is 100% not canon.

Lolita :))