Slit vs Snit - What's the difference?
slit | snit |
A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
(vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
To cut a narrow opening.
To split in two parts.
To cut; to sever; to divide.
* Milton:
A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
(US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
As nouns the difference between slit and snit
is that slit is a narrow cut or opening; a slot while snit is a temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.As a verb slit
is to cut a narrow opening.slit
English
(wikipedia slit)Noun
(en noun)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. […].}}
Verb
- He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
- And slits the thin-spun life.
snit
English
Noun
(en noun)- He's in a snit because he got passed over for promotion.
- The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.