Meaning of slitch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fine mud; silt; slake.
   dialectal, rare, uncountable
2. A slutty bitch.
   nonce-word, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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"”

“With respect⟳ to the mud and slitch, which must gather in a wet⟳ dock, both from the fresh of the river, and the sea flowing in, a reservoir of water is necessary to scour it away. […] Any of the other wet⟳ docks must be liable to have⟳ slitch and mud in them, […]”

“Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call⟳ it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore.”

“The remainder of the essay is chiefly concerned with means of increasing fertility by the use⟳ of sea weed, leaves raked together by poor children, slitch carted from swamps, and sea salt.”

“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.”

“Anyone [Thurgood Marshall's mother] really hated she'd call⟳ a ‘slitch.’ Man or woman, anyone racially offensive was a ‘slitch,’ which was a cross between a slut and a bitch.”

““A fritch would be a French bitch, and a slitch would be a sloppy bitch, and a flitch would be a flirting bitch...””

“"Chuck had high hopes for Sandra Sue," he began. "But she turned out to be a slitch—a combination of a 'bitch and a slut.'" The jurors chuckled with him. Then, for the greater part of three hours, Foreman pounded home the common-law-marriage defense, knowing perfectly well that if his client […]”

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