slitch
/slɪt͡ʃ/
slitch noun: fine mud; silt; slake.
Noun (1)
slitch (uncountable)
- Fine mud; silt; slake.
- This would be the properest Manure for their Sandy Land, if they spread it not too thick, theirs being, as I have said, a shallow sandy Soil, which was the Reason I never advis'd any to use Lime, […] But as most Lands have one Swamp or another bordering on them, they may certainly get admirable...
- DeBow's Review (James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Edwin Bell, 1858), volume 25, page 206, quotes this and glosses slitch as "marsh-mud"1722, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Abridged, volume 3, page 587
Noun (2)
slitch
- A slutty bitch.
- When she came back, her father inquired who had made the call. The daughter replied that it was that ‘old slitch, Mrs Blank’. I was much puzzled by the word ‘slitch’ and wondered if I had heard correctly. I rather diffidently inquired as to the meaning of the word. The Consul General gave me a...2001, Alastair Morrison, The Bird Fancier: A Journey to Peking, page 94
- Anyone [Thurgood Marshall's mother] really hated she'd call a ‘slitch.’ Man or woman, anyone racially offensive was a ‘slitch,’ which was a cross between a slut and a bitch.2008, Chris Crowe (possibly quoting Marhsall), Thurgood Marshall, page 27
Examples of slitch in a sentence
- Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore.1794, Hutchinson, Hist. Cum., I. 564, quoted in the EDD
- The remainder of the essay is chiefly concerned with means of increasing fertility by the use of sea weed, leaves raked together by poor children, slitch carted from swamps, and sea salt.1928, Rodney True, quoted in Agricultural History, volumes 1-2, page 206
- The daughter replied that it was that ‘old slitch, Mrs Blank’.2001, Alastair Morrison, The Bird Fancier: A Journey to Peking, page 94:
- “A fritch would be a French bitch, and a slitch would be a sloppy bitch, and a flitch would be a flirting bitch...”2009, Robb Forman Dew, The Time of Her Life:
Origin of slitch
From Middle English slicche, from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slikiz, *slīką, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg- (“to be slick; slide, slip”). Related to Dutch slijk (“mud, mire, slush”), German Low German Slick (“mud, silt”), German Schlick (“silt, mud”). Doublet of sleech.
Blend of slut + bitch; coined by American science fiction author Robert Heinlein in 1982 in the novel Friday.
Questions about slitch
- What does slitch mean?
- Slitch means fine mud; silt; slake.
- How do you use slitch in a sentence?
- Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore.
- What part of speech is slitch?
- Slitch is a noun.
- How do you pronounce slitch?
- Slitch is pronounced /slɪt͡ʃ/.
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