engobe vs slime

engobe

noun
  • A non-black clay slip coating applied to a ceramic body to give it decorative color or improved texture. 

  • A clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing. 

slime

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. 

  • A monster having the form of a slimy blob. 

  • Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”) 

  • Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. 

  • A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. 

  • A friend; a homie. 

verb
  • To besmirch or disparage. 

  • To carve (fish), removing the offal. 

  • To coat with slime. 

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