Talk:slitch

This is used in the Wizard of Oz ('took a slitch'). - -sche (discuss) 03:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

@-sche: what does it mean? --Backinstadiums (talk) 00:44, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

In the Wizard of Oz, to the extent it means anything, it probably means "slide" or something in that vein, but Alexander Theroux, The Grammar of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics (2013, Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN), page 45 asserts that it's just a nonsense rhyming syllable (rhyming with "ditch" and "witch" in a song). I listed it here in the hopes other people might know of other examples, perhaps even derived from Oz. - -sche (discuss) 01:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

This word also appears several times in The Joys of Love by Madeleine L'Engle, apparently as a euphemism for bitch. Published posthumously in 2008, it was written in the 1940s. Could it have been in the original manuscript, or did the publisher add it in the same year that Heinlein "first used it"? W3steve (talk) 21:34, 12 September 2022 (UTC)