clit

English

Etymology

Shortened from clitoris.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /klɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

clit (plural clits)

1. (slang) The clitoris. [from 1950s]
   • 2006, Tiva Wallon, A Donovan to Love, page 65:

     There was a bright red tongue tattooed over most of her cooter and there was a thick, gold ring that had been pierced through her clit.

Translations

slang: clitoris

• French: clito (fr) m
• Indonesian: itil (id), kelentit (id), klentit

• Marathi: पुच्ची f (puccī)
• Portuguese: grelo (pt) m

Verb

clit (third-person singular simple present clits, present participle clitting, simple past and past participle clitted)

1. (slang, vulgar, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.
   • 1998, Aemilia, Re: Afternoon reading... Group: alt.tasteless

     […] the only two expressions that come to mind are "clitting off" and "tickling the bearded clam"

   • 2009 December 31, Rev. Susie the Floozie, “WHACK-FF WEDNESDAY: “Yo: Ho, Ho”, and a twatful of cum.”, in alt.slack, Usenet:

     Now I can look forward to clitting off at work...

   • 2010, Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (→ISBN)

     […] and then fell back on the bed and clitted her yum-stump to a box-spring-deep pelvis-lifter of what Patty called an “organasm”?

   • 2017, Gemma Stone, The Sessions, Pink Flamingo Media (→ISBN)

     […] he asked me to masturbate while he watched. (...) “Did he let you come when you clitted off?”