Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of sliminess.
When it retreated, sinking sullenly back on itself as though exhausted by its effort, it left a layer of green-grey slimeyness on the cobblestones and glinting puddles in all the hollows.
1993, Lucy Robertson, chapter 12, in Suffer the Little Children, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 1472 more examples
It helps Digeſtion, warms cold Sromachs, carries off Flegm, purifies the Blood, purges out ſalt watery Humours, cleanſes the Bowels from cold ſlimeyneſs, eaſes pains in the Limbs, Head, Heart, and Stomach; […]
[1701?], [Thomas Tryon], The Way to Get Wealth: or, A New and Easie Way to Make Twenty Three Sorts of Wine, Equal to That of France; with Their Vertues. […], London: […] G[eorge] Conyers, […], →OCLC, page 23Swaying with nausea, his head spinning, ready to vomit at la viscosité, the slimeyness and stickiness of existence which sucks you in and traps you in holes, in voids, in quicksands, Roquentin is paralysed with terror.
2008, Carole Seymour-Jones, “The Trio”, in A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, London: Century, →ISBN, page 164
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