Date:    Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:41:34 -0500
<br>From:    Bob Haas  rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Slimed
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<br>Cool.
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<br>On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Jesse T Sheidlower wrote:
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<br>  While I have little doubt that the political sense of _slime,_
<br>  and the verb's general currency, was popularized by the movie
<br>  _Ghostbusters,_ I feel obligated to point out that OED2 does
<br>  record _slime_ as a transitive verb meaning 'to smear or cover
<br>  with slime', with citations to 1628, including two from Tennyson.
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<br>  Jesse Sheidlower
<br>   jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com 
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<br>Bob Haas
<br>UNCG Department of English
<br>rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hamlet.uncg.edu
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<br>                    "No matter where you go, there you are."
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