ooze
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą, from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)). Cognate to Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos, ooss, Swedish os. Compare Old Swedish os, oos, Swedish os, Danish os, Norwegian os (“fumes, vapors, reeking, fug”).
* (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above. Compare Swedish osa (“ooze”).
Inflected forms:
form: oozes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: owze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: owze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oozes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oozing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oozed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oozed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ouse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: owze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ouse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: owze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Secretion, humour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Juice, sap.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To be secreted or slowly leak.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
sometimes
examples: I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.
Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
gloss: To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.
"Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
Newcastle had failed to penetrate a typically organised Stoke backline in the opening stages but, once Cabaye and then Cisse breached their defence, Newcastle oozed confidence and controlled the game with a swagger expected of a top-four team.
Many of the stations, some of which are request stops, still have their original LSWR buildings. All are now private homes, but it oozes nostalgia (which I like).
Derived words: ooze leather
primordial ooze
radiolarian ooze
sea ooze
oozage
oozingly
oozy
woosy
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