Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To cut a narrow opening. · To split into strips by lengthwise cuts. · To cut; to sever; to divide.
Having a cut narrow opening.
A narrow cut or opening; a slot. · The vulva. · A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
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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