Slime vs Greasy - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between slime and greasy

is that slime is (obsolete) = ((l)) while greasy is (obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent.

As a noun slime

is 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 a verb slime

is to coat with slime.

As an adjective greasy is

having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.

slime

English

Noun

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.

* Shakespeare

As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.

A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.

* 2005 , G. E. Nordell, Backlot Requiem: A Rick Walker Mystery

If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime . It's still blackmail.

(figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.

* , II.x:

th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime [...].

(obsolete) = ((l))

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

Derived terms

* slime mold * pink slime

Synonyms

* (any substance of a dirty nature) sludge

Verb

(slim)

To coat with slime.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

(figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.

Anagrams

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greasy

English

Adjective

(er)

Having a slippery surface; having a surface covered with grease.

a greasy mineral

* Shakespeare

With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

Containing a lot of grease or fat.

* 2010 , Gavin Hoffen, Dandelion (page 3)

With a skin full of alcohol and a probable overwhelming desire for a greasy kebab, I had evidently got myself into such a state that I was unable to locate the correct door to the fast food shop.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=May 3 , author=Felicity Cloake , title=How to cook perfect garlic bread , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Nigel and Richard Bertinet go for butter. Jamie and Nigella both opt for olive oil, and Garten uses a mixture, spreading the bread generously with butter, then topping it with garlic and herbs in olive oil. Oil, to my taste, simply makes the bread seem greasy : it's great for dipping, but it doesn't seem to soak into the bread in the same way as butter – I've probably just got hopelessly rich Anglo-Saxon tastes, but for me, it's butter all the way.}}

(slang) detestable, unethical.

* {{quote-news

, year=2004 , month=April 25 , title=Trailer Park Boys epsiode "Rub N Tiz'zug" citation , passage=Julian:'' We're gonna fill the trailers up with furniture all right, boys, but we're gonna rent them out by the hour.
''Bubbles: Aw, that's greasy .}}

(obsolete) fat, bulky

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) gross; indelicate; indecent

(Marston)

(of a horse) Afflicted with the disease called grease.

Derived terms

* greasy spoon