slime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slīm
ipa: /slaɪm/
ipa: /slɑem/
ipa: /slaɪm/
ipa: [slɑe̯m]
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: slimes
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 slim, Faroese slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
synonyms: sludge
glosses: 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.
examples: text: You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.
ref: 1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound, page 44:
glosses: Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
hyponyms: butter slime
cloud slime
glosses: Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
synonyms: word: flubber
extra: kind of rubbery polymer
examples: text: "What about that, you slime?"
ref: 1980, Richard Louis Newmann, Siege of Orbitor, page xvii. 78:
text: If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.
ref: 2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery:
glosses: A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
examples: text: This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.
ref: 2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: fantasy
video-games
glosses: A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
examples: text: […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
examples: text: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:3:
glosses: Jew’s slime (bitumen).
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A friend; a homie.
Derived terms: anode slime
antislime
beslime
butter slime
chocolate tube slime
cloud slime
dog vomit slime mold
pink slime
pink-slime journalism
scrambled egg slime mold
slime bacteria
slimebag
slimeball
slime eel
slime flux
slimeless
slimelike
slime lily
slime mold
slime mould
slime sponge
slime table
slime tutorial
slimeway
slimicide
slimish
slimy
slug slime
white slime