schleem

English

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Presumably from Yiddish schleem.

schleem (countable and uncountable, plural schleems)

membrane.
- Rick and Morty Season 2, Episode 8: "First they take the dinglebop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches".

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Compare English slim (“thin”).

schleem ?

(anatomy) membrane.
- Joel Sirkis (Krakow, 1631): "The membrane which the French call teile is known to the experts, and in Yiddish it is called the schleimel'' (BaH YD 39:5).
- David HaLevi Segal (Ostroh, 1646): "Often the mohel errs in thinking that he has already completed the circumcision, when in fact the very thin skin or schleimel remains, and he must remove the schleimel (TaZ YD 246:6).
- Moses Sofer (Bratislava, 1825): "The flesh between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs . . . needs to be slightly trimmed, and they remove the schleem, the thin skin" (Chasam Sofer YD #68).