slime

Noun · Verb
US[slahym]/slaɪm/1 syllable
Synonyms: sludgegoogoopgookguckgunkmuckooze

Open English WordNet

Verb (1)slimed, sliming

  1. cover or stain with slime“The snake slimed his victim”More general dirty, soil

Noun (1)

  1. any thick, viscous matterSynonyms: sludgegoogoopgookguckgunkmuckoozeType of matterKinds sapropel

Related words muck noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Slime (slīm), noun

Origin: OE. slim, AS. slīm; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slīmen to make smooth, Icel. slīm slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. …; or cf. L. 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.— William Shakespeare

2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.

3. Scripture Bitumen. archaic

Slime had they for mortar.— Gen. xi. 3.

4. pl. Mining Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. William Pryce

5. Physiology A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals. Oliver Goldsmith

Slime eel. Zoology See 1st Hag, 4. — Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.

Slime (slīm), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Slimed (slīmd); present participle & verbal noun Sliming.]

To smear with slime. Alfred Tennyson

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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