slime

Plural: slimes

Noun

any thick, viscous matter
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.
Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
Jew’s slime (bitumen).
A friend; a homie.

Verb

Verb Forms: slimed, sliming, slimes

To cover with a viscous, sticky, or offensive substance.
cover or stain with slime
- "The snake slimed his victim"
To coat with slime.
To besmirch or disparage.
To carve (fish), removing the offal.
To move like slime.
To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
To murder.
To denigrate or slander.

Examples

He worried his opponent would SLIME up the board, making it hard to find any openings.

Origin / Etymology

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 slim, Faroese slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

Synonyms

goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, sludge, flubber

Scrabble Score: 7

slime: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
slime: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slime: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

slime: valid Words With Friends Word