slime n.
1. semen; thus slimey adj.
Works of Rochester (1721) 83: Full gorged, at another Time, / With a vast Meal of nasty Slime, / Which your devouring Cunt had drawn / From Porters Backs, and Footmens Brawn. | ‘A Ramble in St. James’s Park’ in||
Cythera’s Hymnal 26: They hardly had the time to wipe away the slime. | ||
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 121: Tickle my tits and belly, / Smell my slimey slough. | ||
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 45: Held a little slick thing covered with slime. | ||
True Confessions 8: Immortality, a white slime. | ||
5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | ||
in Law Unto Themselves 112: My part was just a little bit of slime [...] The white stuff a man leaks in a woman, sir. | ||
Ten Storey Love Song 254: Pulling a few tissues out of the Kleenex tub to mop up Johnnie’s slime from inside her. |
2. (Aus.) flattery, ingratiation.
Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 22/1: Insensate setter of discordant rhyme, / To hackneyed bathos or lickspittle slime, / Whose slaughtered subjects find a verbal hearse / Toward the charnel chamber of thy verse – / Whose namby-pamby similes are spread / As Chinese cess stuff on a cabbage bed. | ||
Bird o’ Freedom 8 Jan. 5/3: The servants call him ‘Old Slime’. |
3. an extremely unpleasant person [note the character Chevy Slime in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4)].
CUSS 198: Slime A small or insignificant person. | et al.||
New Centurions 228: ‘I‘d like to work books. Get me away from all these slimes you have to bust at night’. | ||
Legionnaire 265: He is liquid slime as far as I am concerned . | ||
Foxes (1980) 65: ‘Anything you want, baby?’ he called. ‘Not from you, slime,’ Annie called back. | ||
A-Team 2 (1984) 54: Just like these slimes to try and nail someone in the back. | ||
Inside 83: I wondered how many men had been led to evil ways by mixing with slime like Jimmy Baker. |
4. (US black) a friend.
🎵 Ayo, what up, slime? | ‘Stick Up’||
🎵 I call up my slime, I need a kilo tonight. | ‘Hold Me Back’||
Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Slime - close friend. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
In compounds
1. (US) a highly objectionable or offensive person.
Blue Knight 281: Fired for pushing a slimeball down the fire escape. | ||
Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 66: For the next couple of weeks Prankster Frank disposed of seven slime-mouths by booking them drunk at the county jail. | ||
Bonfire of the Vanities 410: I’m just saying he’s a slimeball and we ought to be careful. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 354: He was a real gentleman [...] after some of the slimeballs she had met. | ||
Guardian G2 9 July 12: Jerry called him ‘a lying, cheating, no-good slimeball’. | ||
Mad mag. July 12: We’ll nail those slimebags. | ||
Black Swan Green 104: Isaac Pye, the landlord, he’s a total slimeball. | ||
(con. 1973) Johnny Porno 196: Sex joints [...] where the slimeballs drop a quarter in the slot and jerk off. | ||
Dead Man’s Trousers [27]: Once Slimeball sees that you are the fucking man [...] he starts to treat you with a bit more r-e-s-p-e-c-t. | ||
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 39: A taxi driven by Dave’s pissy brother [...] of all possible slimeballs. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 847: Remember? The guy who forged evidence in the Loomis Nikoli? case... Cosmo slimeball... of course he got away with it. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Indep. Rev. 11 Feb. 19: The usual gang must rescue Woody the cowboy from a slimeball toy dealer. | ||
🌐 All turn in great performances, but especially Tabor as the finest crudhead slimeball woman-hater ever portrayed. | ‘Rev. of I Spit On Your Grave’ at JoeBobBriggs.com||
Guardian 25 Jan. 2/2: This was a testosterone-fuelled, dick-swinging [...] slimeball night out [...] abusing women to big-up male entitlement. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 777: [Her phone is] always getting stolen or the money used up by slimebag thieving fellow pupils. |
(US campus) a highly objectionable or offensive person; also atrib.
Honolulu Advertiser (HI) 13 Mar. B2/2: The Hart plane has several dozen minor slimebucket elected officials clinging to the fuselage by their fingernails. | ||
Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 178: That’s your problem, you rotten little slime bucket! | ||
Sl. and Sociability 50: Evaluative terms are plentiful, as slang tends to judge rather than to define (slimebucket ‘objectionable person’, geek ‘one who studies excessively’ jerk ‘socially inept person’). | ||
Midnight Lightning 41: She gave birth while shacked up with a reported slimebucket. | ||
Drawing Dead [ebook] [I] set up a meet with a legit pervert slimebucket [...] The whole thing stunk. |