Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also ghett) a bastard child.

1722		A. Ramsey Tale of Three Bonnets (1785) 19: She had a dealing with Auld Nick [...] She drank, and fought, and spent her gear With dice, and selling o’ the mare. Thus living like a Belzi’s [Beelzebub] get, She ran her sell sae deep in debt.
[1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Get. One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting].
1827		Burns ‘The Bonniest Lass’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 90: O’ bastard gets, some had a score.
1838		Carlisle Jrnl 28 Apr. 4/2: She may be the get o’ some ‘foreign hoganmogan’.
1910		P.W. Joyce Eng. As We Speak It In Ireland.
1969		(con. 1930s) R. Greacen Even without Irene 61: I’ll show you who’s drunk, you f------, half blind get. You don’t even know who yer Da is.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 89: Just you go roun’ an’ ask that woman you’re talkin’ about for her marriage certificate, or any of them ungrateful ghetts for their birthlines!
1984		(con. WW2) T. Jones Heart of Oak [ebook] Wakey! Wakey! you wall-eyed gets!

2. (also ghett) any creature or object.

1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 78: D’you see thon bastard of a dog [...] that ghett’s been roun’ ivery half-hour on the dot to piss up agin me!
1986		(con. 1920s) P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 52: We swopped information on new varieties of outdoor tomatoes because I was dead set on making a success of growing the awkward gets.

3. (also getsie, gett) an idiot, a fool; an unpleasant person; a general term of abuse.

1931		E. Blair letter 4 Sept. Complete Works X (1998) 228: As to new words, here are some [...] Get = ? Word (noun) of abuse, but meaning uncertain.
1935		‘George Orwell’ Clergyman’s Daughter (1986) 103: Priests. Bloody old getsies dey are too [Ibid.] 157: De old get, de ole getsie.
1935		‘George Orwell’ Clergyman’s Daughter (1986) 95: But dem bloody interferin’ gets of a Labout government brought in a law.
1942		(con. 1890s) S. O’Casey Pictures in the Hallway 122: Th’ white-collared get, said Dorin.
1943		M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 43: ‘Oi, Brum. Do yow wanna go home?’ ‘Yow Cockney get!’ the Brum boys would answer.
1949		S. O’Casey Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy Act III: You one-eyed gett, if you had two, I’d cyclonize you with a box!
1952		B. MacMahon Children of the Rainbow 230: What’re you pratin’ about, you craw-thumpin’ get?
1958		A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 77: Christ, I’ve never known anybody as daft as yo’, you cross-eyed gett.
1959		K. Waterhouse Billy Liar (1962) 161: Don’t bloody shout at me, you gormless young get!
1964		P. Terson Night to Make the Angels Weep (1967) II xvi: Go to him, Squire, spineless get.
1965		L. Dunne Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 37: Whether he’d been a cheeky little gett or not, I was awful glad to have had him for my brother.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 7: Grandma pulled me out [...] shouting against the stupid, dead-headed gets who left their cars by the roadside with open doors.
1976		H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act I: This young lad, this little get, comes up to me.
1981		W. Russell Educating Rita I v: I said to him, y’ soft get, even if I was havin’ an affair there’s no point burnin’ me books.
1987		(con. 1920s) L. Redmond Emerald Square 13: ‘Get out of here, ye dirty get and wash your mouth out with carbolic soap,’ she hissed.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 39: Now get up, yeh lazy get, an’ don’t be upsettin’ your mother.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 130: Another hooring beggar’s get!
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 165: It’s in English as well, yeh dozy get.
2012		D. O’Donnell Locked Ward (2013) 311: ‘Dirty get,’ I agreed.