SLIME
What does "SLIME" mean?
A moist, soft, slippery substance regarded as unpleasant to touch.
Meanings
- Any soft, wet, slippery, often viscous substance. A trail of slime marked where the snail had crossed.
- A stretchy, gooey homemade toy material popular with children. They mixed glue and borax to make glittery slime. informal
- To cover or coat with slime. Mud slimed his boots to the ankle.
Did you know?
- A brainless slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, grew a network between oat-flake 'cities' that closely matched the real Tokyo rail map - published in Science in 2010.
Word origin
From Old English 'slīm' (soft mud, mucus), from Proto-Germanic '*slīmaz', related to Latin 'limus' (mud) and Greek 'limne' (marsh).
Remember it
SLIME sounds like 'slime' on your hand - and it shares its SLI- with 'slimy' and 'slippery'.
A little poem
The snail leaves silver where it went,
a sentence the dawn will erase-
every glory is this temporary, and this slow.
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Wordplay
- Why did the slime mold ace its exam? It already had the whole network figured out.
What it teaches
What looks like mess is sometimes a map; intelligence wears more shapes than we credit.
Quick facts
What does SLIME mean?
A moist, soft, slippery substance regarded as unpleasant to touch.
Is SLIME a valid word?
Yes — SLIME is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SLIME?
SLIME has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SLIME come from?
From Old English 'slīm' (soft mud, mucus), from Proto-Germanic '*slīmaz', related to Latin 'limus' (mud) and Greek 'limne' (marsh).
What can SLIME teach us?
What looks like mess is sometimes a map; intelligence wears more shapes than we credit.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.