Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ouze

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ouze
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

British usage; Uncountable

Etymology

Partly from Middle English woose, wose, woos, from Old English wōs (“juice, liquor, sap”); partly from Middle English wose, wase, from Old English wāse, wase (“mud, mire, marsh, slime”). Cognate with Low German wees (“wet, ooze, mire”), German Wasen (“sod, turf”), Icelandic veisa (“mire, bog”). More at ooze.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: woose, wōs, wose, wāse

Usage

British usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

oose (alternative) ouse (alternative) oase (alternative) oaze (alternative) oze (alternative) oes (alternative)

Questions

What does ouze mean?: Mud.
Where does ouze come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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