English Explanatory Dictionary

slime

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
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.

Pronunciation

slīm /slaɪm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-slime.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-slime.wav /slɑem/ [slɑe̯m]

Word forms

slime slimes sliming slimed

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”).

Synonyms

sludge flubber

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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