Slime

/slaɪm/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
5. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
6. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
7. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
8. (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.

Example Sentences

As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

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.

"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.

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

[…] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]

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.

‘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.[…]’

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• slimes
• sliming
• slimed

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