slime

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
• A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
• Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
• Jew's slime (bitumen)
• friend, homie

Verb

• To coat with slime.
• To besmirch or disparage.
• To carve (fish), removing the offal.

Related

Similar words

• sludge

Origin

• From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- ("smooth; slick; sticky; slimy"). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim, Latin limus, Ancient Greek λίμνη.