slime

(Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
3. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
4. (countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
5. (countable, uncountable) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
6. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) A friend; a homie.

Verb

1. (transitive) To coat with slime.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To besmirch or disparage.
3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.
4. (intransitive) To move like slime.
5. (figuratively, intransitive) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
6. (slang, transitive) To murder.
7. (Singapore, transitive) To denigrate or slander.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/slaɪm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: slime

Hérité de ancien anglais: slīm

Appartenant à danois: slim

Appartenant à saterlandais: Sliem

Appartenant à néerlandais: slijm

Appartenant à allemand: Schleim

Appartenant à latin: limus

Appartenant à grec ancien: λίμνη

In summary

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish slim, Faroese slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

Concepts

limon

vase

mucosité

fange

bave

bourbe

désordre

embrouillamini

imbroglio

lie

marmelade

morve

mucus

purée

dépôt visqueux

micmac

moisissures mucus

boue

bouillie

compote

confusion

dégraisser

Synonymes

mud

ooze

sludge

mucus

mire

silt

muck

scum

moss

goo

phlegm

mucilage

gook

guck

clay

dirt

goop

snot

filth

gunge

gunk

nasal mucus

slush

blackish mud

slobber

spit

puddle

saliva

mucous

booger

frig

freak

crud

frame

flip

creep

buttermilk

flame

cream

fetch

face cream

come

butter

🧈

bog

honey

🍯

heck

jelly

jerk

jism

drool

Traductions

Schleim

muco

baba

cieno

slijk

modder

bava

moco

légamo

limo

flema

melma

drek

lodo

limo