slit
English
Etymology
From Old English slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyd- (“to tear, rend (cut apart), split apart”). Possibly cognate with Latin laed- (“to strike, hurt, injure”).
Pronunciation
Noun
slit (plural slits)
- A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
- (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
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Verb
slit (third-person singular simple present slits, present participle slitting, simple past slit, past participle slit or slitten) ("slitten" is obsolete)
- To cut a narrow opening.
- He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
- To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
- (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And slits the thin-spun life.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
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Adjective
slit (not comparable)
- Having a cut narrow opening
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Icelandic
Etymology
From *Old Norse slit.
Noun
slit n (genitive singular slits, no plural)
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See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
slit
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
slit
- inflection of slita:
Swedish
Noun
slit n
Declension
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Nominative | slit | slitet | — | — |
Genitive | slits | slitets | — | — |
Verb
slit
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of slita.
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Westrobothnian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Verb
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