slime

Signification

Noun

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. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”)
4. (informal) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
5. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
6. (obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
7. (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
8. (slang) A friend; a homie.

Verb

1. To coat with slime.
2. To besmirch or disparage.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
4. To move like slime, like slimy things or like a slimy person.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slaɪm/

Étymologie

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”).