Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Exuding moisture.
- adj. Of, resembling, or containing soft mud or slime: sank into the oozy ground.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. leaking out slowly
Examples
“His eyes were gone, his face, too—just cracked bark over oozy muscle.”
“Here, he calls for Carnaroli brand rice because, when combined with the reduced tomato juice and parmesan cheese, a tight but slightly oozy viscosity is produced.”
“As she says, digging in and finding a well of oozy gruyère is a real treat.”
“The group's sophomore effort, "Dye It Blonde," landed in January and currently stands as the year's best rock album - a marvelous, glittery, glam-rock suite teeming with dreamy melodies and oozy guitar riffs worthy of T.”
The Washington Post: Smith Westerns' sparkling style falls short onstage at Rock & Roll Hotel
“Chocolate lava cakes, also known as molten-center chocolate cakes, are known for their oozy richness.”
“As a contrast, I follow them up with Nigella's Finger Lickin' Ribs, from her book Feast, a deliberately quick recipe designed, apparently, for eating "oozy and sticky" in bed, which cooks at 200C for an hour.”
“Originally, for the colour contrast, I had planned to use a red onion that I had spied in our bin, but upon cutting it open I was - shall we say - a little less than thrilled with the black and slightly oozy innards.”
“Returning home was like denture sores, an oozy chafed hole where the prosthetic of his life wore down on him.”
“A meal isn't complete without red meat, a glass of Bordeaux and rounded off with an oozy chevre.”
The Huffington Post: BritChick Paris: Why French Men Would Rather Die Than Diet
“It's dusk on Rue St. Martin in Bel Air, a cramped, rough section of downtown Port-au-Prince where the gutters are filled with a gray, oozy slime.”
The Washington Post: In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oozy’.
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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"Z" Words
Scrabble List
zyme, zori, zoos, zoon, zoom, zonk, zone, zoic, zoea, zits, ziti, zing and 76 more...
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oo ee oo aa aa
Words that start with a double letter. Suggestions welcome!
eerie, eel, oolite, oozy, aardvark, oops, oology, oolong, ooh, oomiak, oomph, oospore and 15 more...
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