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ooze

Pronunciation: /uːz/

The English word “ooze” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. Secretion, humour.
  4. Juice, sap.
  5. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
  6. A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
  7. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

verb

  1. To be secreted or slowly leak.
  2. To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

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)…

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