- slit (v.)
- Old English slitan "cut or tear up, slit," from Proto-Germanic *slitanan (cf. Old Saxon slitan, Old Norse slita, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch sliten, Dutch slijten, Old High German slizan, German schleißen "to slit"). Slit skirt is attested from 1913.
- slit (n.)
- mid-13c., from slit (v.). Slang sense of "vulva" is attested from 1640s.