slit, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

slit n.

1. with ref. to a woman.

(a) the vagina.

1620		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 2: The old wife got up for to take a long shit. (2x) / The God damned old sea crab grabbed her by the slit.
1648		R. Herrick ‘Upon Scobble’ Hesperides 47: Scobble for Whoredome whips his wife; and cryes, / He’ll slit her nose; [...] she replyes, / Good Sir, make no more cuts i’ th’ outward skin, / One slit’s enough to let Adultry in.
1672		S. Butler ‘Dildoides’ in Rochester & Others Works (1739) 183: Some were for tender Virgins fit, / Some for the large salacious Slit / Of a rank Lady.
1700		‘My Thing is my Own’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 196: He talk’d of a slit I had above Knee, / But I’ll have no Taylors to stitch it for me.
1740		Dialogue between a Married Lady and a Maid I: All this while I was out of myself, he put his Finger into the Slit.
1748–49		Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 25: I twisted my thighs, squeezed, and compress’d the lips of that virgin-slit.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 3: The first was a Carpenter, he thought it fit, / With a rum-ti-dum, &c. / With a bonny broad axe to give it a slit.
1786		Nunnery Amusements 7: In her white hand a Dildoe stout she holds, / Ready to plunge into her Slit’s soft folds.
1837–8		‘Sam Swipes’ Cuckold’s Nest 21: A tailor then came, with his needle so long, / And two balls of cotton to do the job strong, / He examined her opening, and quickly thought fit / To go to work at her, to stop up her ...
1840		‘My Thing Is My Own’ in Fake Away Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 284: [as 1700] .
1866		E. Sellon Phoebe Kissagen 39: She, rolling her tongue first down one side of my slit and then down the other, then on the clitoris, then right inside, gave me joy inexpressible.
1879		‘Lady Pokingham’ in Pearl 2 Aug. 19: [...] fitting the bead of his pego into her slit, [she] soon pressed down so as to take in and quite cover the first inch of it.
1884		Randiana 66: Cunt, and what of it? A nasty, slimy, slobbery, slit, / Half-an-inch between arse and it.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: My hand was groping to get a finger in her slit.
1904		Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 39: While he was rubbing the head of his staff in my slit I told him it felt good.
1942		H. Miller Roofs of Paris (1983) 169: Some of them have cunts as big as your hat and some of them have little slits.
1968		N. Heard Howard Street 179: When that White lady’s ready, a [...] chick can stick a pepperoni up her slit for all I care.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 322: He is fucking a Woman, his prick is in her slit.
1987		‘Victoria Parker’ Pay for Play Cheerleaders [Internet] He made sloppy, slurpy noises as he sucked and licked her shiny slit, slicking and sliding his tongue up and down, then twirling it on Chrissie’s clit.
1998		‘Bill E. Goodhead’ Nubile Treat [Internet] He set the swollen knob of his cock at the lips of her slit and shoved it in.
2001		‘Randy Everhard’ Tattoo of a Naked Lady 222: I steered my cockhead inside her slit.

(b) a derog. term for a woman.

1942		Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 22 Aug. 7/6: Slit — (a boy or girl).
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 239: There’s just two ingredients to have a good [party], enough to drink and some willing slits.
1971		Frank Zappa ‘Bwana Dik’ [lyrics] My God, Madge . . . you voluptuous New York City slit.
1977		(con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 7: The Sliced-Up Slit Case [...] The Missing Clit Caper.
2001		J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 185: Iell you the truth, I wish the slit would come back now.

2. (also sliteye) a derog. term for an Asian or East Asian person; thus slit-eyed adj. [the supposed shape of their eye].

1952		R. Holles Now thrive the Armourers 58: ‘I wonder what slit-eyed yellow basket will be kipping in my sleeping-bag to-night,’ growled a burly lance-corporal.
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 202: You mean the slit-eyes?
1971		Stewart & Wood ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ [lyrics] I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 57: The most common target for pejorative stereotyping is the shape of an Asian person’s eyes. This is seen in [...] slants, slant eyes, slits.