Definition of "ooze"

ooze¹

/uːz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural oozes
1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.
verb
third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed
1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.
  Quotations
  I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.
  1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game
  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.
  1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag‎, Baen Publishing Enterprises, published 2003
  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.
  1994, Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life‎, Vintage Books, published 1995
  Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
  2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux, page 278
2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
  Quotations
  "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
  1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour‎, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2011
  There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
  1999, Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility, Watson-Guptill Publications, page 16
  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.
  2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎

ooze²

/uːz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural oozes
1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  Quotations
  my son i' th' ooze is bedded.
  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, [Act III, scene iii]
2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
  Quotations
  Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.
  1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […]
3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

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