Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With an oozy, damp, or muddy look or feeling: as, ropes dripping oozily.

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  • adverb In an oozy manner.

Etymologies

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oozy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The first thing I saw was Wheeler, dead or dying; he had a gaping wound in the neck, and the blood was pumping oozily on to his shirt.

    Fiancée 2010

  •     Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • With all engines stopped you could hear the water gurgling oozily by, even above the devil's chorus of screams and yells from the darkness - I was new to jungle, and had no conception of the appalling din with which it is filled at night.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • The first thing I saw was Wheeler, dead or dying; he had a gaping wound in the neck, and the blood was pumping oozily on to his shirt.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • The first thing I saw was Wheeler, dead or dying; he had a gaping wound in the neck, and the blood was pumping oozily on to his shirt.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • His pipe had begun to bubble oozily every time he pulled at it.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and oily swell.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and oily swell.

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

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