Slime
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.
- Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
- 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).
- A friend; a homie.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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