ooze

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: o͞oz, IPA(key): /uːz/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ʉːz/ Rhymes: -uːz Homophone: oohs === Etymology 1 === (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”). ==== Alternative forms ==== owze (obsolete) ouse (dated) ==== Noun ==== ooze (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 ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed) (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English wose, from Old English wāse (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic *waisā, 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”)). Compare also Saterland Frisian öäzje (“to smear”). More at virus. ==== Noun ==== ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes) Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.