slimes

Noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

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.
   • As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   sludge

2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
   • You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , How to cleanſe the Teeth, and keep them ſound, page 44
3. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).

   Synonyms:

   flubber

4. (derogatory, informal) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
   • "What about that, you slime?"1980, Richard Louis Newmann, Siege of Orbitor, page xvii. 78
5. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
   • This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8
6. (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
   • […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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