slitch

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fine mud; silt; slake. dialectal,rare,uncountable
    — 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 Slitch, wherewith to manure all their Up-Lands. DeBow's Review (James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Edwin Bell, 1858), volume 25, page 206, quotes this and glosses slitch as "marsh-mud"
  2. A slutty bitch. nonce-word,slang,vulgar
    — 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 piercing look. A ‘slitch,’ he said, ‘is our own little private, personal family word for a cross between a slut and a bitch.’ I do not think I have ever been so surprised in my life.

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Blend of slut + bitch; coined by American science fiction author Robert Heinlein in 1982 in the novel Friday.
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