slit
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Definition of slit
7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
“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.[…].”
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noun
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A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
“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.[…].”
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(vulgar)The vulva.
“[…]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]”
- (vulgar)A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
verb
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To cut a narrow opening.
“He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.”
- To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
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(transitive)To cut; to sever; to divide.
“And slits the thin-spun life.”
adj
- (not-comparable)Having a cut narrow opening.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English slitten, 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”). Doublet of slite; also related to slice through French borrowing. Apparently unrelated to English slot, whose etymology, however, is uncertain.
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