ooze
See also: Ooze
English
editPronunciation
edit- enPR: o͞oz, IPA(key): /uːz/
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- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ʉːz/
- Rhymes: -uːz
- Homophone: oohs
Etymology 1
edit- (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English wōs (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *wōsą (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit वसा (vásā, “fat”)).
- (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above.
Alternative forms
edit- owze (obsolete)
Alternative forms
edit- ouse (dated)
Noun
editooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
- (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
- (obsolete) Juice, sap.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittanning liquor, tanning ooze
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Verb
editooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
- 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game:
- I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
- 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport[4]:
- 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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto secrete or slowly leak
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to give off a sense of (something)
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English wose, from Old English wāse (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit विष्यति (viṣyati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.
Noun
editooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)
- Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- my son i' th' ooze is bedded.
- (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.
- A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
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