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Slit

//ˈslɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a cut narrow opening. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    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.[…]."

  2. 2
    a long narrow opening wordnet
  3. 3
    The vulva. vulgar

    "[…]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…]"

  4. 4
    obscene terms for female genitals wordnet
  5. 5
    A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute. vulgar
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  1. 6
    a narrow fissure wordnet
  2. 7
    a depression scratched or carved into a surface wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut a narrow opening.

    "He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out."

  2. 2
    cut a slit into wordnet
  3. 3
    To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
  4. 4
    make a clean cut through wordnet
  5. 5
    To cut; to sever; to divide. transitive

    "And slits the thin-spun life."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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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