zit

Uncertain origin, first attested as 1960s North American English teenagers' slang. Compare English chit (“pimple, wart”), German Zitze (“teat, nipple”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

zit (plural zits)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Pimple
   • 1968, J. Lawrence Hagen, “Pinball 1959”, in Generation, volumes 20-21, page 182:

     I can't help thinking how little good all that working out did him. I think the only thing he ever got out of it was more zits.

   • 1987 Adventures in Babysitting, 00:06:35:

     Brad: Sara, did you take my Clearasil again? Sara: I ran out of brown (paint). Brad: Great. How am I supposed to cover up my zits?

• acker, akker (Archaic Australian slang)

• zitso
• zitty

• acne
• blackhead
• pimple
• spot

• tiz

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• IPA^(key): /zɪt/
• Hyphenation: zit
• Rhymes: -ɪt

From zitten.

zit m (plural zitten, diminutive zitje n)

1. the act of sitting
2. (Belgium, by extension) an exam term at university or an institution of intermediate tertiary education
3. seat
   • 2009 May 21 (last accessed), (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 April 2011:

     Dit zitje is niet geschikt voor kinderen jonger dan 6 maanden.

     This seat is not suitable for children under 6 months.

4. (Belgium, by extension) a seat in a legislative or regulatory group (e.g. in a parliament or a board)

• (the act of sitting): zitting
• (exam term): zittijd
• (seat): zetel, zeet
• (seat in a group): zetel, zitje

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zit

1. inflection of zitten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• zeit

Inherited from Old High German zīt, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈt͡siːt/

zīt f

1. time

• Alemannic German: Ziit, Zit, Zyt
• Bavarian: Zeid

  Cimbrian: zait

  Mòcheno: zait

• Central Franconian: Zeck, Zick (Kölsch), Ziet (western and northernmost Ripuarian), Zitt (Siegerland, otherwise scattered compromise form), Zeit (most of Moselle Franconian)
• East Central German:

  Vilamovian: cajt

• East Franconian:
• German: Zeit
• Hunsrik: Zeid
• Luxembourgish: Zäit
• Pennsylvania German: Zeit, Zeid
• Yiddish: צײַט (tsayt)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “zît”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis.

• IPA^(key): /t͡siːt/

zīt f

1. time

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle High German: zīt, zeit
  • Alemannic German: Ziit, Zit, Zyt
  • Bavarian: Zeid

    Cimbrian: zait

    Mòcheno: zait

  • Central Franconian: Zeck, Zick (Kölsch), Ziet (western and northernmost Ripuarian), Zitt (Siegerland, otherwise scattered compromise form), Zeit (most of Moselle Franconian)
  • East Central German:

    Vilamovian: cajt

  • East Franconian:
  • German: Zeit
  • Hunsrik: Zeid
  • Luxembourgish: Zäit
  • Pennsylvania German: Zeit, Zeid
  • Yiddish: צײַט (tsayt)

zit

1. day

From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan.

• IPA^(key): /zɪt/

zit (present participle zitheen)

1. to sit
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 6:

     But zit ad hime wi vlaxen wheel,

     But sit at home with flaxen wheel,

   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 18:

     An thaar zit down an yux our vill,

     And there sit down and sob our fill,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[2], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131