oozy

ooze +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːzi/

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• Homophone: uzi
• Rhymes: -uːzi

oozy (comparative oozier, superlative ooziest)

1. Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     A daughter?
     Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes
     The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish
     My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed
     Where my sonne lies: when did you lose your daughter?

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 13”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     [The rain] fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields.

   • 1912, James Stephens, Mary, Mary (published in the UK as The Charwoman's Daughter), New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter XXIV, p. 175,

     Her vocabulary could not furnish her with the qualifying word, or rather, epithet for his bigness. Horrible was suggested and retained, but her instinct clamored that there was a fat, oozy word somewhere which would have brought comfort to her brains and her hands and feet.

   • 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism‎, London: Macmillan & Co., page 38:

     Each country is casting its net of espionage into the slimy bottom of the others, fishing for their secrets, the treacherous secrets which brew in the oozy depths of diplomacy.

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 123:

     […] he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream.

   • 2015, Vincent Giroud, chapter 1, in Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, Oxford University Press:

     On birthdays and saints' days, Jewish musicians from the local community were invited to perform festive music and played "an extraordinary variety of music: potpourris of famous operas, military marches, Viennese waltzes, and the ooziest gypsy songs and Jewish dances, rampant with glissandos, tremolos, and tearful vibratos."