different between slime vs gunge

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

Derived terms

Translations

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

English

Etymology 1

See gong.

Noun

gunge (plural gunges)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gong: an outhouse.

Etymology 2

First attested around 1935-40. Probably an alteration of gunk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd??/

Noun

gunge (usually uncountable, plural gunges)

1. (Britain) A viscous or sticky substance, particularly an unpleasant one of vague or unknown composition; goo; gunk.
   • 1978, A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International 1992, p.390:

     Have I got trails of gunge on these frills?

2. (organic chemistry, informal) Tholin.
   • 11 January 1979, Dr Bernard Dixon (editor), "Grains between the stars account for spectra", in New Scientist:

     They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material “'gunge.”

Derived terms

• gungey/gungy

Verb

gunge (third-person singular simple present gunges, present participle gunging, simple past and past participle gunged)

1. (often with "up") To clog with gunge.
2. (Britain) To cover with gunge.

Synonyms

• goo
• goop
• grunge
• gunk
• slime

Anagrams

• Geung

Albanian

Noun

gunge

1. indefinite genitive/dative/ablative singular of gungë

Middle English

Adjective

gunge

1. Alternative form of yong

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gunga or g?n, which derives from Proto-Germanic *gangan? (“to go, walk, step”).

Verb

gunge

1. (Mooring) to go

Conjugation

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gunga, ganga, from Proto-Germanic *gangan?. More at English gang.

Verb

gunge

1. to go