OOZE, OOZY
ADJECTIVES
► STODGY muddy; oozy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ULIGINOUS of a watery, oozy, or slimy nature → 1576
► WOOZY muddy; oozy → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► GOOK any oozy, sticky, or slimy substance → 1945 colloq.
► GUCK any oozy, sticky, or slimy substance → 1945 colloq.
► IPER any foul liquid, ooze, mud, or sewage → 1880 Sc.
► LOBLOLLY ooze, mud, a mud-hole, mire; a slushy mess → 1865 Amer. dial.
► QUAKE-OOZE soft, trembling ooze → 1898
VERBS
► DEG ► DEGG of a sore: to run, to ooze; to fester → 1859 Eng. dial.
► DILDER to dribble, to ooze, to trickle, to glide → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► LECK to drip, to ooze; to leak → 1905 Eng. dial.
► MAKE to ooze, to flow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIZE to ooze;; to discharge slowly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► OOZLE to ooze → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PEASE to ooze out; to trickle, to leak → 1851 Eng. dial.
► SAB to exude moisture, to drip, to ooze → 1785 Sc.
► SCREEVE to ooze out; to exude moisture; esp. used of a corpse; to froth at the mouth, as in a fit → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SEEP to suppurate; to ooze → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SYE to drop as a liquid, to drip, to ooze → 893 obs.