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slime
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)
- 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.
- (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.
- 2005, G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery
- (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- (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.
- (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)
- (transitive) To coat with slime.
- (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
- To carve (fish), removing the offal.
Anagrams
- Imels, Liems, Miles, limes, miles, milse, misle, smile
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oobleck
English
Etymology
Named for a sticky substance in Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), children's story by Dr. Seuss.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?.bl?k/
Noun
oobleck (uncountable)
- A mixture of cornstarch and water with unusual physical properties.
- 2002, Joe Schwarcz, That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
- I know from personal experience that it's not fun to be covered with oobleck.
- 2002, Joe Schwarcz, That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
See also
- flubber
- non-Newtonian fluid
Spanish
Noun
oobleck m (plural ooblecks)
- oobleck
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