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Thin, glutinous mud
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slime
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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. 2 Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to cover with slime," 1620s, from slime (n.). Related: Slimed ; sliming .
Usage examples of slime.
It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.
Halott was gone, the tiger returned and chuffed once more and I followed it down a set of stairs, down through a laboratory of some kind, and on down into dank basements below, with water adrip, slime on the walls, and rats running everywhere.
In his joy he slimed all of us, including the trembling Bezel, who was being prevented from decamping by the firm grip Nunzio had on the back of his neck.
He could see the second body, half submerged in slime and dark brackish water, trapped and held by the boggy earth.
Serena told me that Edith Smugg had only been dead two hours before Citronella had phoned up, sliming away.
She wields a gleaming machete and chops the durian in half, revealing the clean yellow slime of its interior with its fat gleaming pits.
Muck oozed up into the car window and Farger raised the window just ahead of the slime.
Tapers of slime ran down the walls, fungal growths blooming from the cracks.
A sticky kind of fungal mould slimed every leaf for three metres above the ground.
It was coated with a thick slime and the little Zulu gagged at the smell of it.
For that matter, Ussmak could have been one of the poor wretches in radiation suits who guddled around in the freezing Tosevite slime for the bits of radioactive material their detectors found.
And how did a piece of slime like Phil Frigging Skink get the estimable Troy Jefferson, with his overt political ambitions, to offer a lowball plea in the first place?
The floor of the depression was covered with a rotten green slime that glinted oilily in the sun.
She particularly hated pseudomonas, a bacterial infection that coated burn patients with green slime.
Glistening with slime, he head resembled an octopus with pupilless, milky white eyes.