slimey

English

Adjective

slimey (comparative slimier, superlative slimiest)

1. Alternative spelling of slimy.
   • 1879 July 2, Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in J[aquelin] S[mith] Holliday, “Astounding Enterprises”, in Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California, [Oakland, Calif.]: Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999, →ISBN, page 262, column 1:

     It is a swamp of willows, cottonwoods, and vines; a malarial and pestilential waste where bars of white sand and pools of slimey water glisten through the saplings.

   • 1985, Dale A[dam] Dye, “AFVN (American Forces Vietnam Network)”, in Run Between the Raindrops, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, “South Side” section, chapter III (Southwest Sector Fight), page 108:

     Climbed through the blown-out window and sloshed through the slimey water.

   • 1986, Stephen Koch, chapter 3, in The Bachelors’ Bride: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Marion Boyars Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:

     It once had been the warehouse and dock of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; now it was a ruin, its four shambling stories sagging into the slimey water.

   • 1996, Hannah Howell, “Wild Roses”, in Unconquered, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 342:

     I won’t let those thieving, murdering leeches who call themselves our kin get their slimey hands on you.

   • 2010, Helen Waldstein Wilkes, “War Breaks Out”, in Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters), Edmonton, Alta.: Athabasca University Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     Because our sows have failed to produce enough piglets, Fanny suggests that we not feed the brood sow so well, and that we give her “more slimey food, not too rich” so that she will produce more piglets.

Anagrams

• slymie, Smiley, smiley, limeys, Limeys, Smylie, milsey