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Synonyms for slime

Grammar : Noun
Spell : slahym
Phonetic Transcription : slaɪm

Définition of slime

Origin :
  • Old English slim "slime," from Proto-Germanic *slimaz (cf. Old Norse slim, Old Frisian slym, Dutch slijm "slime, phlegm," German Schleim "slime"), probably related to Old English lim "birdlime; sticky substance," from PIE root *(s)lei- "slimy, sticky, slippery" (cf. Sanskrit linati "sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears;" Russian slimak "snail;" Old Church Slavonic slina "spittle;" Old Irish sligim "to smear," leinam "I follow," literally "I stick to;" Welsh llyfn "smooth;" Greek leimax "snail," limne "marsh, pool, lake," alinein "to anoint, besmear;" Latin limus "slime, mud, mire," linere "to daub, besmear, rub out, erase"). As an insult to a person from mid-15c. Slime-mold is from 1880.
  • noun muck, gelled waste
Example sentences :
  • Blow it,” he said, taking off the chain, “my mouth is too full of slime.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • The Englishman's arms shot into the slime with the regularity of pistons.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • They must then be rubbed with wood-ashes, to remove the slime.
  • Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
  • Myxacium, meaning mucus, slime; so called from the glutinous veil.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Tell me about it first, and meanwhile perhaps I'll have got my head out of the slime.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • He dropped back into the ditch, and waded, ankle deep in slime, to the other side.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
  • There was not a sound: patches of slime glimmered feebly amongst the reeds.
  • Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
  • When you reach the high ground you are covered with mud and slime.
  • Extract from : « 'Charge It' » by Irving Bacheller
  • A slime had been deposited that made Ned shudder as he felt it.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal » by G. Harvey Ralphson
  • Nevertheless it was like coming out of slime on to rock—we were worried but not soiled.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore

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