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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Examples
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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
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Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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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
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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
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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
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Tosses his arms, or a pine cone-mantled, oozily rinded,
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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His pipe had begun to bubble oozily every time he pulled at it.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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The melody wallowed oozily along, like a ship moving forward over a sleek and oily swell.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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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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