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slime

UK/slaɪm/ US/slaɪm/ fairly common informal slang
verb (1) noun (1)

verb

1.

cover or stain with slime

  • “The snake slimed his victim”

noun

1.

Origin

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, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

Phrases

  • anode slime
  • butter slime
  • chocolate tube slime
  • cloud slime
  • dog vomit slime mold
  • pink slime
  • pink-slime journalism
  • scrambled egg slime mold
  • slime out

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