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slime

Pronunciation: /slaɪm/

The English word “slime” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  3. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
  4. A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  5. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
  6. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  7. Jew’s slime (bitumen).
  8. A friend; a homie.
  9. Semen.

verb

  1. To coat with slime.
  2. To besmirch or disparage.
  3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
  4. To move like slime.
  5. To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
  6. To murder.
  7. To denigrate or slander.

Etymology

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin…

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