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Slit vs Smit - What's the difference?

slit | smit |

As verbs the difference between slit and smit

is that slit is to cut a narrow opening while smit is (archaic|rare) (smite).

As a noun slit

is a narrow cut or opening; a slot.

slit

English

(wikipedia slit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=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. […].}}
  • (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
  • (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.

    • Verb

  • To cut a narrow opening.
    • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
  • To split in two parts.
  • To cut; to sever; to divide.
  • * Milton:
    • And slits the thin-spun life.

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    smit

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, rare) (smite)
    • (Spenser)
  • * Cowper
    • smit with the beauty of so fair a scene
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