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slitch

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /slɪt͡ʃ/

1

noun

Meaning 1

Fine mud; silt; slake.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dialectal, rare, uncountable

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A slutty bitch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nonce-word, slang, vulgar

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History

Etymology

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.