What's the difference between gooey and slimy?

Gooey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Bake for about 15 minutes – the cake will have a crunchy surface and be gooey inside.
  • (2) Add cheese, soup, mustard, salt and pepper over low gas; stir gently until it is one gooey mass.
  • (3) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
  • (4) It demands huge amounts of energy to dig the thick, gooey petroleum from the earth, a process that is up to 4.5 times as carbon intensive as conventional oil extraction.
  • (5) He wasn't quite ready, though, for baked cheese, with all its smelly and delicious gooeyness.
  • (6) Several pastry outlets - including a French patisserie - bake bread and gooey cakes.
  • (7) Leek, taleggio and thyme pie The creamy taleggio and leeks cook down together to form a delicious, gooey filling, and the parsley adds a fresh note.
  • (8) The Miliband brothers, whom cartoonists still put in short trousers, are clearly not contemplating dotage just yet, and so surely their gooey professions of love should be set aside for the sterner dictates of combat.
  • (9) The Complete Nose to Tail by Fergus Henderson (Bloomsbury) Chocolate, orange and anise tart This smooth and gooey chocolate tart, set in crisp, almond pastry, is rich with dark undertones of coffee and spiked with anise.
  • (10) There is a whiff of this with Hab's gooey talk about "making people happy", although they are conscious of the need not to over-control.
  • (11) His version of The Shining "ends with the hotel burning, and [Kubrick's] with the hotel freezing" because he is a "warm and gooey" person while Kubrick was "the coldest guy in the universe".
  • (12) Recipe supplied by Kristin Rosenau, pastryaffair.com Rhubarb self-saucing pudding Self-saucing puddings are magical: what goes in to the oven as a dish full of batter transmogrifies into a golden-topped sponge with a deliciously saucy, gooey bottom.
  • (13) Cities designed around cars, he said, had the effect of producing “not mobility, but a hermitage of the single home in an ever-increasing sea of single units, a dreadful flat-land of self-denial, courtesy of the great fiction of self-sufficiency.” Spread people out into “a square-mile thin pancake,” he said, and you end up with “a slimy veneer of organic matter of no use to you or the observer puzzled by the thin, gooey-drip man.
  • (14) A common theme in the comments expressing dismay at my shameful acceptance of fatherhood is that people go all sappy when they have a baby; ergo, every word I wrote from this point on would be shot through with gooey, complacent sentiment.
  • (15) 3 Pour the mix into the tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the brownie is setting around the outside and still gooey in the centre.
  • (16) The standing room-only crowd spills into the adjacent square for good reason: the city's best coxinhas (croquettes stuffed with chicken and gooey catupiry cheese), doused in housemade hot sauce; and bartender's Souza's competition-slaying caipirinhas in new combinations (tangerine with dedo-de-moça pepper, cashew with lime) and exotic fruits (jabuticaba, starfruit) are the perfect fuel for an full-on evening.
  • (17) You can see when the brownies are ready because the top dries to a slightly paler brown speckle, while the middle remains dark, dense and gooey.
  • (18) I wanted to harrumph and complain about Michele Hanson's emotional pro-dog piece a couple of weeks ago (G2, 9 December), but Zoe Williams' gooey effort about the Dogs Trust in Canterbury ( Saturday sketch , 21 December) has forced me out of my inertia.
  • (19) Sure, there are some (quite funny) masturbation jokes, but at its core, this is as gooey romantic as it gets.
  • (20) Microfoam is gooey and velvety, turning my rocket fuel into a treat.

Slimy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.
  • (2) Only Candida albicans and the corresponding slimy coat were found on smooth areas of tube.
  • (3) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
  • (4) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
  • (5) Both symbiotic and free-living (non-associative) nitrogen fixation analyses (by acetylene reduction) revealed that the non-slimy, small colonies were significantly more effective than slimy, large colonies.
  • (6) At surgery, the mass was noted not to penetrate the superficial surface of the quadriceps tendon and was full of slimy fluid.
  • (7) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
  • (8) This is a decision which will force talented young athletes to work another year for free while making huge amounts of money for everyone else at their unpaid workplace, to pass this off as somehow the "right thing to do" for the game or, even worse, is just slimy.
  • (9) No 'slimy' state of this fungus was observed and dimorphism was not confirmed.
  • (10) A slimy material, responsible for increased viscosity of these cultures, was digested by dextranase.
  • (11) Disease signs included acute death, inability to fly, lameness, inappetence, emaciation, polyuria, and the production of slimy, green droppings.
  • (12) With proteins and other polymers released from lysed bacteria, this slimy material may contribute directly to increased viscosity and foam formation.
  • (13) The secondary forms of the agglutinates were similar to those of Enterobacteriaceae, the typical primary form of the agglutination into slimy networks and spheres was not observed upon the restoration of agglutinability.
  • (14) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.
  • (15) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
  • (16) Even the briefest hint of a sniff of a rumour that the studio is going the “teen choice” route by plumping for looks over substance will see the movie sink faster than Luke’s X-wing in Yoda’s slimy Dagobah swamp, which is why rumoured candidates such as Glee’s Blake Jenner should be avoided like the Candorian plague .
  • (17) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
  • (18) Buck Pal receptions are all 1970s vol-au-vents (complete with a slimy surprise lurking within), or squeezy cheese on a Ritz cracker.
  • (19) Snails, one of France's signature dishes, could be off the menu if the country fails to stem an invasion by a slimy worm from south-east Asia, scientists have said.
  • (20) They pull off an armed robbery and make it to Florida where they meet James Franco's slimy gangster, Alien, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most "repulsive cinematic creations in recent memory".

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