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slimy
English
Etymology
From Middle English slymy, slimi, either derived from the noun Old English sl?m or an unattested *sl?mi?, replacing Old English slipig (“slippy”). Equivalent to slime +? -y. Cognate with Dutch slijmig, slijmerig (“slimy”), German schleimig (“slimy; smarmy”), Swedish slemmig (“slimy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sla?.mi/
- Rhymes: -a?mi
Adjective
slimy (comparative slimier, superlative slimiest)
- Of or pertaining to slime
- resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime
- Synonyms: viscous, glutinous
- (slang, figuratively) Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky; slick; smarmy.
Synonyms
- (slippery) lubricous
- (underhanded) conniving
Translations
Noun
slimy (plural slimies)
- A ponyfish.
Anagrams
- ILYSM, misly
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slabby
English
Etymology 1
slab (“mud, sludge”) +? -y
Adjective
slabby (comparative slabbier, superlative slabbiest)
- Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
- 1696, John Selden, Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, “Pope,” p. 127,[1]
- The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.
- 1696, John Selden, Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, “Pope,” p. 127,[1]
- Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
- 1846, Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy, London: for the author, “Genoa and its Neighbourhood,” p. 48,[2]
- I went down into the garden, intended to be prim and quaint, with avenues, and terraces, and orange-trees, and statues, and water in stone basins; and everything was green, gaunt, weedy, straggling, under grown or over grown, mildewy, damp, redolent of all sorts of slabby, clammy, creeping, and uncomfortable life.
- 1846, Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy, London: for the author, “Genoa and its Neighbourhood,” p. 48,[2]
- (of weather) Rainy, wet.
- 1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh,[3]
- To Virgo, Leo turnes the time, and in a reaking sweate.
- He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south.
- And swallowes vp the slabby cloudes in fyry foming mouth.
- 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, p. 58,[4]
- […] I am only to caution our labourer as to the present work, that he do not stir the ground in over-wet and slabby weather […]
- 1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh,[3]
Derived terms
- slabbiness
Etymology 2
slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) +? -y
Adjective
slabby (comparative slabbier, superlative slabbiest)
- Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
- 1905, Robert W. Chambers, Iole, New York: D. Appleton, p. 3,[5]
- Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.
- 1962, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles, New York: Harper & Row, Chapter ,[6]
- He was big and pink and slabby with muscle, but not very hairy, for a white man.
- 2010, Euan Ferguson, “Hay’s unmissable (if you can get there...),” The Guardian, 30 May, 2010,[7]
- The papers were full yesterday morning, you see, of the iPad. […] a million fidget-fingered twits were salivating for the chance to show off their slabby electro-tablets […]
- 1905, Robert W. Chambers, Iole, New York: D. Appleton, p. 3,[5]
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