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SLIME
sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze
(noun) any thick, viscous matter
slime
(verb) cover or stain with slime; “The snake slimed his victim”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)
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.
Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
(informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
(video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
(obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen)
(slang) friend, homie
Synonyms
• (any substance of a dirty nature): sludge
Verb
slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)
(transitive) To coat with slime.
(transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
To carve (fish), removing the offal.
Anagrams
• Imels, Liems, Miles, limes, miles, milse, misle, smile
Source: Wiktionary
Slime, n. Etym: [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. limus mud.]
1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. (Script.)
Definition: Bitumen. [Archaic] Slime had they for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. (Mining)
Definition: Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Pryce.
5. (Physiol.)
Definition: A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Goldsmith. Slime eel. (Zoöl.) See 1st Hag, 4.
– Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.
Slime, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sliming.]
Definition: To smear with slime. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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