What is the meaning of GIFT OF-THE-GAB. Phrases containing GIFT OF-THE-GAB
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(1) An excessively stupid or unpleasant person. (2) term of abuse misinterpreted at West Lodge Middle School, Pinner, Middlesex in late- '70s, where rumour circulated that it was the proper scientific term for "a pregnant camel". Hence common playground dialogue: "You git!". "Fuck off, I am not a pregnant camel" (ed: strangely enough I grew up under the impression a 'git' was the child of an Irish prostitute. We 'learn' such odd stuff when we are kids!)
Gift of the gab is slang for having the knack of conversation.
Old git is British slang for a cantankerous old person.
As in VD; STD's the gift Giver is the one with a STD's that passes the STD on.
Girt is old Dorset slang for great, big.
Lift is slang for arrest or capture. Lift is slang for to steal.
As in “What’s the grift?â€: What are you trying to pull? Confidence game, swindle
Cocaine
chatter, talk ‘He’s got the gilt of the gab.’
cocaine
To be good at hustling. EX-I got the GIFT OF GAB.
Gift In Crib
n a tricky one to define. But, of course, that’s what I’m getting paid the big bucks for. What it doesn’t mean is what The Waltons meant when they said it (“git outta here, John-Boy”). Git is technically an insult but has a twinge of jealousy to it. You’d call someone a git if they’d won the Readers’ Digest Prize Draw, outsmarted you in a battle of wits or been named in Bill Gates’ last will and testament because of a spelling mistake. Like “sod,” it has a friendly tone to it. It may be derived from Arabic, or it may be a contraction of the word “illegitimate.” Or neither.
  A gift of clothing.
Noun. The ability to talk incessantly, persuasively, to have the knack of conversation.
Git is British slang for an illegitimate person (a bastard). Git is British slang for an unpleasant or stupid person.
Venereal disease; comes from the "gift that keeps on giving", as in VD; STD's.
To be good at hustling. EX-I got the GIFT OF GAB.
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v. t.
The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
v.
To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
a.
Alt. of Gilt-edged
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
v. t.
Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
n.
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gift
n.
Gift.
v. t.
To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
n.
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
a.
Having a gilt edge; as, gilt-edged paper.
n.
The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
n.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
n.
The gift of tongues. Farrar.
n.
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
n.
A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
v. t.
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
v. t.
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
v. i.
To give a gift or gifts.
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