raina83 1 | 2 4 Jul 2011 / #1What does "git majonez" mean and why does everyone in the office call my work "git majonez" ?Does it mean they want to eat my reports with mayonnaise? Please help! :)
pawian 220 | 24842 4 Jul 2011 / #2It is Polish slang for great, excellent. A little ironic, but without offensive intentions.
gumishu 14 | 6234 4 Jul 2011 / #3'git majonez' can mean perfectly alright, fine enough or somewhat better than fine enoughI don't know what actually literally 'git' means or meant (as far as I can tell 'git' or 'gites' was once in the past criminal slang for good, ok, fine or originally perhaps a fine fellow (a criminal one especially serving the sentence)- it then entered colloquial Polish) but majonez is simply 'mayonaise' -the majonez is added to git just because it sounds handy, funny and interesting :) I smile when I think of 'git majonez' but I have some inclination towards pure nonsense
pawian 220 | 24842 4 Jul 2011 / #4I don't know what actually literally 'git' means or meantYes, it is prison slang. Tough criminals have called themselves git people.
z_darius 14 | 3960 4 Jul 2011 / #5Indeed, that is the original source of the word.Git meant a prisoner, especially one who was capable of using prison slang (grypsowanie) and was tough and smart, a member of the prisoners' elite. The word entered the mainstream slang sometime around early 70's and it has had a benign tone pretty much ever since.