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Slops vs Slime - What's the difference?

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Slops is a related term of slime.


As nouns the difference between slops and slime

is that slops is scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs while 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.

slops

English

Noun

(head)
  • Scraps that will be fed to animals, particularly to hogs.
    • I don't mind slopping the hogs, I just mind the stench of the slops .
  • (in the plural, nautical, dated) clothing and bedding issued to sailors
  • (in the plural, nautical, dated) sailors' breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century
  • * 2012 , Nelson's navy , by Philip Haythornthwaite, page 26:
    • The original "slops " were voluminous breeches of about knee length, reminiscent of 17th century "", worn with stockings; these continue to be depicted as late as 1790s, but trousers, first introduced as slop-clothing in 1720s, were more functional and more popular.
  • (in the plural, dated) The dirty wastewater of a house.
    • (A direct quote from: 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , v 4 p 4310)

    Synonyms

    * slop, hogwash, swill

    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.

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