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Slurpy vs Slime - What's the difference?

slurpy | slime |

As an adjective slurpy

is sloppy; sounding or feeling like the slurping of liquid.

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.

slurpy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Sloppy; sounding or feeling like the slurping of liquid.
  • * 2007 , A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod - Christmas in Distress] [http://books.google.com/books?id=9u36ZpkXRcsC&pg=PA85&dq=drooly&lr=&sig=5C5urtEvZZpAYNWEN435HM9KrNE page 85
    • Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy , drooly doggy kiss right on his face.
  • * 1998 , - Animal Acts: Fictions] [http://books.google.com/books?id=s8K7c9_jKd0C&pg=PA55&dq=slurpy&lr=&sig=QMH2Q7yfFnCgIQjoIeXTSvC4m0M page 55
    • She wet her hands in a pan of brown water, then rubbed her palms together, a slurpy sound.

    Derived terms

    * slurpily * slurpiness

    See also

    * slurpee

    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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