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