woosy

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English *wosy, equivalent to ooze +‎ -y. Cognate with Old Frisian wasie (“miry”). More at ooze.

Adjective edit

woosy (comparative more woosy, superlative most woosy)

(dialectal) oozy; wet
- 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 25 p. 109:
  Besides, what is she else, but a foule woosie Marsh,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woosy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)