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slimy (adj.)
late 14c.,from
slime
(n.) +
-y
(2). Cf. Middle Dutch
slimich
, Dutch
slijmig
, German
schleimig
. Figurative sense of "morally repulsive" is first attested 1570s. Related:
Sliminess
.
