slime
English
/slaɪm/
noun
Definitions
- 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) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- (video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- (figuratively) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- (obsolete) Jew's slime (bitumen)
- (slang) friend, homie
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English slime inherited from Old English slīm inherited from Proto-Germanic *slīmą (slime) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (slick, sticky, smooth, slimy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sley-
Gloss
slick, sticky, smooth, slimy
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Urschleim English
- antislime English
- bag English
- ball English
- beslime English
- bucket English
- face English
- head English
- hole English
- mud English
- mudslime English
- reslime English
- slimebag English
- slimeball English
- slimebucket English
- slimeface English
- slimehead English
- slimehole English
- slimeless English
- slimelike English
- slimewad English
- slimeway English
- slimicide English
- slimily English
- sliminess English
- slimish English
- slimy English
- way English
- lima Latin
- limnophilus Latin
- limus Latin
- thlypis Latin
- Schleim German
- Schleimhaut German
- Urschleim German
- schleimig German
- kruitslijm Dutch, Flemish
- slijm Dutch, Flemish
- slijmbal Dutch, Flemish
- slijmerig Dutch, Flemish
- slijmvlies Dutch, Flemish
- slijmzwam Dutch, Flemish
- taaislijmziekte Dutch, Flemish
- limon French
- limo Spanish, Castilian
- λίμνη Ancient Greek
- *(s)ley- Proto-Indo-European
- *sley- Proto-Indo-European
- *slīmą Proto-Germanic
- スライム Japanese
- slipig Old English
- slīm Old English
- आलय Sanskrit
- slime Middle English
- slimish Middle English
- slymy Middle English
- linn- Irish
- slím Old Norse
- slim Danish
- λίμνη Greek (modern)
- llyfn Welsh
- slīm Old High German
- slīm Middle High German
- Schläim Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- schläimen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *lima Proto-Finnic
- *lim-ā- Proto-Celtic
- *slibnos Proto-Celtic
- *limo Proto-Italic