Slimy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slimy \Slim"y\, a. [Compar. {Slimier}; superl. {Slimiest}.]
     Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of
     slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with
     slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Slimy things did crawl with legs
           Upon the slimy sea.                      --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slimy
       adj : covered with or resembling slime; "a slimy substance covered
             the rocks" [syn: {slimed}]
       [also: {slimiest}, {slimier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "slimy":
     abject, adhesive, adulatory, amylaceous, barfy, bland, blandishing,
     blarneying, buttery, cajoling, clabbered, clammy, clotted,
     coagulated, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, crappy, creeping,
     curdled, disgusting, doughy, fair-spoken, fawning, fecal, feculent,
     fetid, filthy, fine-spoken, flattering, flyblown, foul, fulsome,
     gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gloppy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous,
     glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike,
     gummous, gummy, gunky, gushing, heavy, honey-mouthed,
     honey-tongued, honeyed, icky, insincere, insinuating, inspissated,
     jelled, jellied, jellylike, maggoty, malodorous, mealymouthed,
     mephitic, mucilaginous, mucky, mucous, mushy, nasty, nauseating,
     obsequious, odious, oily, oily-tongued, oozy, ordurous, pasty,
     puky, putrid, rank, repulsive, ropy, rotten, scabby, scummy,
     scurfy, servile, shitty, slabby, slippery, slithery, slobbery,
     sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken,
     smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, sposhy, squashy, squishy,
     squushy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, sycophantic, syrupy,
     tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, toadying, tough, tremelloid,
     tremellose, uliginous, unctuous, vile, viscid, viscose, viscous,
     vomity, wheedling, wormy, yecchy