oozy
/ˈuːzi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
Example Sentences
- "A daughter? Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed Where my sonne lies: when did you lose your daughter?"
- "[The rain] fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields."
- "1912, James Stephens, Mary, Mary (published in the UK as The Charwoman's Daughter), New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter XXIV, p. 175, https://archive.org/details/marymary00stepiala Her vocabulary could not furnish her with the qualifying word, or rather, epithet for his bigness. Horrible was suggested and retained, but her instinct clamored that there was a fat, oozy word somewhere which would have brought comfort to her brains and her hands and feet."
- "Each country is casting its net of espionage into the slimy bottom of the others, fishing for their secrets, the treacherous secrets which brew in the oozy depths of diplomacy."
- "[…] he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream."
- "On birthdays and saints' days, Jewish musicians from the local community were invited to perform festive music and played "an extraordinary variety of music: potpourris of famous operas, military marches, Viennese waltzes, and the ooziest gypsy songs and Jewish dances, rampant with glissandos, tremolos, and tearful vibratos.""
Etymology
From ooze + -y.