slime
Significado
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- 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”)
- (informal) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- (obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
- (slang) A friend; a homie.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/slaɪm/
Etimología
From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, 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 λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
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