slit

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

slit (plural slits)

1. A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎:

     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. (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
3. (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

• slit drum

slit (third-person singular simple present slits, present participle slitting, simple past slit, past participle slit or slitten)

1. To cut a narrow opening.

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

2. To split in two parts.
3. (transitive) To cut; to sever; to divide.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     And slits the thin-spun life.

slit (not comparable)

1. Having a cut narrow opening

• &lits, List, list, lits, silt, tils

From *Old Norse slit.

slit n (genitive singular slits, no plural)

1. wear and tear

• list

• slitna

slit

1. imperative of slite

slit

1. present tense of slita
2. imperative of slita

slit n

1. (hard) work, labour

slit

1. imperative of slita.

From Old Norse slíta, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną.

• IPA^(key): /sliːt/, /²ɬliːt/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -ìːt

slit (preterite släit, supine sliti or slittä)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To tear.

• slet