git-up-and-git
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Joe is a git-up-and-git, self-made, authentic small-town man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take even, statesmanship, and wit, And ginerel git-up-and-git, Old Terry Hut is sound clean through—!
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
Son, I've learned this in my life—and I've done quite some hiking at that, even if I didn't have the book-l'arnin' and the git-up-and-git to make anything out of my experience.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
"She ain't so great as Douglas on ore or as Phoenix on lungers, but when it comes, to the git-up-and-git hustle, she's there rounding up the trade from early morn till dine."
From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine
Back in Arizona, now, a man with any git-up-and-git to him might—but, pshaw, this was not Arizona!
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
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