See slimeball in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The eggs [of a lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum)] that pass out with the manure of an infested sheep do not hatch in the open. When eaten by the snail, they hatch and finally give rise to larvae that pass out of the snail's body in gelatinous \"slime[-]balls.\"",
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"text": "The cercariae contain massive glands, formerly considered to be penetration glands, but now believed to produce the slime responsible for the formation of these balls. It is likely that the slime produced by the snail itself may contribute, at least partly, to the formation of a slimeball.",
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"ref": "1987, Daniel Lynch, A Killing Frost, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 10:",
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"text": "And I put my hands on her jugs. She goes crazy. She says 'Take your hands off me slimeball!' So I go, 'Rona, watch your language!' And she goes, 'If you wanna have fun with your hands, why don't you pass the time playin' solitaire.'",
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"ref": "1995, Dinty W. Moore, “Back to Nature”, in The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:",
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"ref": "2010, John Grisham, The Confession: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; Bantam Books trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 342:",
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"ref": "2012, Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:",
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"ref": "1957 May, J[ohn] T. Lucker, A. O. Foster, “Adult Tapeworms”, in Parasites and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep (Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 1330), Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 38:",
"text": "The eggs [of a lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum)] that pass out with the manure of an infested sheep do not hatch in the open. When eaten by the snail, they hatch and finally give rise to larvae that pass out of the snail's body in gelatinous \"slime[-]balls.\"",
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"ref": "1976, J[ames] D[esmond] Smyth, “Digenea: Bucephalidae, Fasciolidae, Opisthorchiidae, Dicrocoeliidae”, in Introduction to Animal Parasitology (Biological Science Texts), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 181, column 2; 3rd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1994, →ISBN, page 215, column 2:",
"text": "The cercariae contain massive glands, formerly considered to be penetration glands, but now believed to produce the slime responsible for the formation of these balls. It is likely that the slime produced by the snail itself may contribute, at least partly, to the formation of a slimeball.",
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"ref": "1995, A. M. Marty, E. M. Andersen, “Helminthology”, in Wilhelm Doerr, Gerhard Seifert, Erwin Uehlinger, editors, Tropical Pathology (Spezielle pathologische Anatomie: Ein Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk [Special Pathological Anatomy: A Teaching and Reference Work]; 8), 2nd edition, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 827:",
"text": "These flukes have three hosts. [...] As the infected snail crawls along it leaves slime balls containing cercaria on grass. An ant, Formica fusca, the arthropod host for D. dendriticum in the United States, is infected when it ingests the slime balls. Mammals are infected by consuming ants containing encysted metacercaria.",
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"(biology) A round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance such as mucus.",
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"ref": "1987, Daniel Lynch, A Killing Frost, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 10:",
"text": "Even slimeballs were entitled to representation, though.",
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{
"ref": "1993, John Lahr, The Manchurian Candidate: A Play [...] From the Novel by Richard Condon, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, page 72:",
"text": "And I put my hands on her jugs. She goes crazy. She says 'Take your hands off me slimeball!' So I go, 'Rona, watch your language!' And she goes, 'If you wanna have fun with your hands, why don't you pass the time playin' solitaire.'",
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{
"ref": "1995, Dinty W. Moore, “Back to Nature”, in The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth about Internet Culture, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:",
"text": "[T]here will always be spies, and spooks, and counterspooks. Some of these slimeballs are perhaps breaking into Pentagon computers at this very moment, finding the dirty pictures some bored programmer stored on a corner of the hard disk.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2010, John Grisham, The Confession: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; Bantam Books trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 342:",
"text": "He cursed Flak, then watched with horror as the slimeball explained to the world exactly how he, Kerber, had obtained the confession.",
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{
"ref": "2012, Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 102:",
"text": "He said it would be good for me, going to Grimsby; my hideous, horrible, sewer-minded, greeneyed slimeball of a two-faced, felonious bastard of an uncle.",
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"ref": "2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31:",
"text": "Meanwhile, the film's villain, played by Ben Mendelsohn, is a bigwig slimeball who wants to monopolize and monetize The Oasis through excessive pop-up ads. His true crime, though, is that he's a total noob who doesn't know his stuff.",
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"sense": "round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-like substance which came from outer space",
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"feminine"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
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"code": "et",
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"note": "limapall (direct translation)",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable"
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{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"word": "limanuljaska"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
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"word": "cochon"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ordure"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "porc"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"feminine"
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"word": "raclure"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "sac à foutre"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sac à merde"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "vicelard"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "maiale"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "porco"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"word": "kakī mohokura"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"word": "oblech"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
"word": "obleśniak"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "sliznjak",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"roman": "pádlo",
"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "person who is slimy or otherwise undesirable",
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"masculine"
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"word": "baboso"
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"rare"
],
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}
],
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}
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