oozy

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  1. adjective Exuding moisture.
  2. adjective Of, resembling, or containing soft mud or slime: sank into the oozy ground.

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  • Our world is all Kaluza-Klein and oozy, foamy, weird spacetime, where quantum tunnels, funnels, sleds let apples slide through Newton's head Mariam Kirby Mineola, TX SECOND PLACE Stephen Baxter ghostwrites for Louis L'Amour Sheriff Hawking stared down his nemesis, the Singularity Kid. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • Waiting The night was oozy-rich with velvet darkness, moonlight and moon shade. —  Lost Echoes by Joe R Lansdale
  • The sacs rested on the bottom of the glasses, opaque, oozy, and loathsome. —  Rouge Warrior - Richard Marcinko
  • He was back at the edge of that oozy, clinging, all devouring trap. —  Tom Slade's Double Dare
  • I was sure to pick out spongy, oozy, slippery grass to stand upon, in marshy land, or was yet more likely to slump through over shoes in black mud. —  Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
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  1. = OFries. wasie, miry; as ooze + -y.
 

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