Meaning

9 senses
  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.

    жи́жаžíža, ме́сивоmésivo, шламšlam

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

    Schleim

    слизьslizʹ, шламšlam, илil

    слизslyz, шламšlam, мулmul

  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, slang, uncountable)A friend; a homie.

  7. (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar)Semen.

  8. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable)Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.

  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Jew’s slime (bitumen).

More definitions
  • any thick, viscous matter

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Green slime oozed out the pipe.

    deGrüner Schleim glibberte aus der Leitung.

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  2. The pond was covered in green slime.

    deDer Teich war von grünem Schleim überzogen.

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  3. There was green slime oozing out of the pipe.

    deAus dem Rohr sickerte grüner Schleim.

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  4. Slime was oozing out of the pipe.

    ruИз трубы вытекала слизь.

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  5. The slime was black and stinky.

    ruТина была черноватой и вонючей.

    deDer Schleim war schwarz und stinkend.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
mucilaginous substance or mucus-like substance:
Русский
By meaning 2
mud:
mucilaginous substance or mucus-like substance:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
mucilaginous substance or mucus-like substance:

Origin

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germa

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”).

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