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Slimy vs Slobbery - What's the difference?

slimy | slobbery |

As adjectives the difference between slimy and slobbery

is that slimy is of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous while slobbery is wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.

As a noun slimy

is a ponyfish.

slimy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.
    • Slimy things did crawl with legs
    Upon the slimy sea. —Coleridge.
  • (slang, figuratively) friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; sneaky.

    • Synonyms

    * (slippery) lubricous * (underhanded) conniving

    Noun

    (slimies)
  • A ponyfish.

    • slobbery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wet and slimy, containing slobber, having the consistency of slobber.
  • *2007 , Elinor de Wire - '' The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses] [http://books.google.com/books?id=yf2KPvJwN8EC&pg=PR11&dq=%22slobbery+dog%22&sig=tooIiNBfSaVTad3NFdZwX3Pp3Uw page xi
  • *:He placed one paw on my right thigh and planted a slobbery dog kiss on my cheek.
  • *:"Well! Make yourself at home, why don't you?" I joked.
  • Prone to produce an excess of saliva or slobber.
  • *2004 , Susan Johnson - The Broken Book] [http://books.google.com/books?id=GzkawhZmQrEC&pg=RA1-PA25&dq=%22slobbery%22+date:1980-2008&lr=&sig=tsEv_jcYF2BtZXyBVxN-x_MuK_A page 25.
  • *:My own lips are slobbery suckers, the bane of my life, the subject of teasing by Peggy Gordon, who has recently taken to calling me Lubra Lips.