Noun: ooze
Sample Sentences
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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, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
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It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato. [1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297:]
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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, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like ooze
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”).
2. * (Verb) Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan; see above. Compare Swedish osa (“ooze”). See: Middle English Nouns '
wose', Old English Nouns '
wōs', Swedish Nouns '
os', Swedish Nouns '
os', Danish Nouns '
os', Old English Nouns '
wōsan'.