clit

See also: clít

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /klɪt/, [kʰl̥ɪt]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Shortened from clitoris.

Noun

clit (plural clits)

1. (informal, vulgar) Clipping of clitoris. [from 1950s]
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 64:

     ‘Nibble me clit and let me suck your love-joint and I’ll give ya sixpence.’

   • 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.

2. (slang, often derogatory) A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.
3. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A term of abuse.
   • 1973, Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers:

     'Yes' (you stupid bitch, you dull clit), I said. 'And I'll need Use of English and General Paper.' Shouldn't she know all this?

   • 2000 March 17, Anime566, “Foley is gone, hurray!”, in t-netz.wrestling.wwf‎^[1] (Usenet):

     You screwed up infinately worse when you started this string, dumb clit.

   • 2003, Mark Atwell, Tokoroa, page 197:

     “ […] No, yer dumb clit, it ain't rainin'. Where yer bin? It ain't rained for months.”

   • 2003 September 7, Don Leonard, “Hey Jim-”, in atl.arno‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Well you clit you didn't say shit

   • 2005 June 19, carlygtr, “Items for Sale”, in rec.music.makers.guitar‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Wise up asshole
     Get a life where you're at it as well\stupid clit

   • 2012, Jeremiah Healy, The Staked Goat:

     “ […] I told the woman at the hospital office I was your partner and was bringing you your gun. Hah. The stupid clit told me you was meeting your wife. […] ”

Derived terms

• clitar
• clitface
• clithead
• clitless
• clitlicker
• clit mouse
• Clitonista
• clitsucker
• clitsucking
• clit tease
• clit teaser
• clitwad
• hemiclit

Translations

slang: clitoris

• French: clito (fr) m
• German: Klitoris (de) f
• Indonesian: itil (id), kelentit (id), klentit
• Persian: چوچول (čučul) (vulgar)
• Portuguese: grelo (pt) m
• Swedish: klitta (sv) c

Verb

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

1. (slang, vulgar, transitive, intransitive, 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?”

Translations

slang: stimulate the clitoris

• Swedish: klittra (sv), rulla russin, rulla ärta

Etymology 2

Possibly from clight, clitch.

Verb

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

1. (UK dialectal, obsolete) To tangle or stick together.
   • 1686, Quintilian, The Declamations of Quitilian ... Translated (from the Oxford Theatre Edition) [by J. Warr]., page 117:

     My grey Hairs are clitted on my Head for want of Kembing; I did look fresh, but now  […]

   • 1732, Thomas Chubb, Chubb's Tracts, page 151:

     Neither can a boy carelessly clit the hair of his head, which clitting will occasion the pulling some oft in the combing, nor wantonly kill a sparrow, without the immediate and special interposition of God to lead him to those actions.

   • 1892, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, page 99:

     How your hair do get clited!

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian клит (klyt).

Noun

clit m (plural clituri)

1. (Moldavia (region)) heap, pile

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	clit	clitul	clituri	cliturii
genitive-dative	clit	clitului	clituri	cliturilor
vocative	clitule		cliturilor

References

• clit in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN