ghit

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ghit

/ˈɡɪt/ UK
/ˈdʒiːˌhɪt/ UK
/ˈɡɪt/ US
/ˈdʒiˌhɪt/ US

Sounds like (one pronunciation) git, Git · Rhymes with -ɪt, -iːhɪt

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Contraction of Google + hit. Coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl. See the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

noun ghits

Internet, abbreviation, contraction Contraction of Google + hit, a hit obtained using the search engine Google. Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and ver

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@misc{ghit_2026,
  title = {ghit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ghit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}