Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

slime

/slaɪm/ noun, verb

Forms slimes sliming slimed

  1. 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.
  2. noun Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  3. noun Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
  4. noun (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  5. noun (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
  6. noun (figuratively, obsolete) Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  7. noun (obsolete) Jew’s slime (bitumen).
  8. noun (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
  9. verb (transitive) To coat with slime.
  10. verb (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
  11. verb To carve (fish), removing the offal.
  12. verb (intransitive) To move like slime.
  13. verb (intransitive, figurative) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
  14. verb (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To murder.
  15. verb (transitive, Singapore) To denigrate or slander.

Synonyms

sludge flubber goo goop gook guck gunk muck ooze

Etymology

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
The slang sense of "to murder" spread among Black communites throughout the 2010s and gained prominence on TikTok around 2021.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.
  2. noun Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  3. verb To smear with slime. Tennyson.

Etymology [OE. slim, AS. slim; akin to D. slijm, G. schleim, MHG. slimen to make smooth, Icel. slim slime, Dan. sliim; cf. L. limare to file, polish, levis smooth, Gr. limus mud.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “slime”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “slime” (best matches first).