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goit

goit

See also: go it

English

Noun

goit ‎(plural goits)

  1. (Britain, Yorkshire and Lancashire) A small artificial channel carrying water. Usually used with respect to channels built to feed mills.

Etymology 2

Popularised by the television series Red Dwarf. Possibly a shortening of goitre (i.e. a pain in the neck), or from git.

Noun

goit ‎(plural goits)

  1. (informal, pejorative) A fool.

Etymology

From Middle English gote ‎(“channel, stream”), from Old English *gotu ‎(“channel, gutter, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gutō ‎(“gutter, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰew- ‎(“to pour”). Cognate with Scots gote, goit, goate ‎(“trench, ditch, watercourse”), Dutch goot ‎(“gutter”), Middle Low German gote ‎(“ditch”). More at gote.

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