slime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
video-games
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 limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
Inflected forms:
form: slimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sliming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
gloss: Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
informal
uncountable
examples: "What about that, you slime?"
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.
gloss: A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.
gloss: Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]
gloss: Jew’s slime (bitumen).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A friend; a homie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To coat with slime.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.
gloss: To besmirch or disparage.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To carve (fish), removing the offal.
pos: verb
examples: If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.
You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.
gloss: To move like slime.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: To murder.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To denigrate or slander.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
transitive
Derived words: anode slime
antislime
beslime
butter slime
chocolate tube slime
cloud slime
deslime
dog vomit slime mold
Muslime
pink slime
pink-slime journalism
reslime
scrambled egg slime mold
slime bacteria
slimebag
slimeball
slimebucket
slime eel
slimeface
slime flux
slimehead
slimehole
slimeless
slimelike
slime lily
slime mold
slime mould
slimer
slime sponge
slime table
slime tutorial
slimewad
slimeway
slimicide
slimish
slimy
slug slime
white slime
slime out
unslimed
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