slit: [13] Slit is not recorded in Old English, but it is assumed to have existed, as *slittan (its first cousin slītan ‘slit’ survived into the 20th century in Scottish English as slite). It goes back ultimately to the same Germanic base that produced English slice and possibly also slash, slat and slate. => slice
slit (v.)
c. 1200, from or related to Old English slitan "to slit, tear, split, rend to pieces; bite, sting; back-bite," from Proto-Germanic *slitan (cognates: Old Saxon slitan, Old Frisian slita, Old Norse slita, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sliten, Dutch slijten, Old High German slizan, German schlei?en "to slit"). A more violent verb in Old English than after, as in slitcwealm "death by rending." Slit skirt is attested from 1913.A slitting-mill (1660s) cut iron plates into thin rods for making nails, etc.
slit (n.)
mid-13c., "long cut or rent (in clothes), incision," from slit (v.). Slang sense of "vulva" is attested from 1640s. Old English had slit (n.) with a sense of "a rending, bite; backbiting."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Make a slit in the stem about half an inch long.
在樹干上切一道大約半英寸長(zhǎng)的口子。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. She watched them through a slit in the curtains.
她透過(guò)窗簾上的一道窄縫注視著他們。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
3. She was wearing a white dress slit to the thigh.