different between filth vs slime

English

Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English f?lþu, from Proto-West Germanic *f?liþu, equivalent to foul +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

filth (usually uncountable, plural filths)

1. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

2. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion

     purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights

3. (Britain, derogatory, slang, with definite article) The police.

4. (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
5. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.

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English

Etymology

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English sl?m, from Proto-Germanic *sl?m?, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek ????? (límn?, “marsh”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?m, IPA^(key): /sla?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

1. 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.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
3. (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
   • 2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery

     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.

4. (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
5. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
6. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen)

   • 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.

7. (African-American Vernacular) friend, homie

Synonyms

• (any substance of a dirty nature): sludge

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Verb

slime (third-person singular simple present slimes, present participle sliming, simple past and past participle slimed)

1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.

Anagrams

• Imels, Liems, Miles, limes, miles, milse, misle, smile