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

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