Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Leaking out slowly: Describes something that is seeping or leaking a liquid in a gradual, often thick or viscous manner.
   • Soft and wet, like mud: Describes a substance or surface that is soft, wet, and yielding, often unpleasantly so.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The oozy mud made it difficult to walk. (The soft, wet mud made walking hard.)
  • An oozy substance leaked from the cracked pipe. (A thick, slow-leaking substance came out of the broken pipe.)
  • The wound was still oozy and needed a fresh bandage. (The wound was still seeping fluid slowly.)

Advanced Usage

• Descriptive of texture and state: Often used to describe textures that are unpleasantly wet, soft, and yielding, evoking a sensory experience.
  • The cheese was deliciously oozy when melted. (The cheese became pleasingly soft and runny when heated.)
• Figurative use for emotions or atmosphere: Can describe something that feels emotionally overwhelming or sentimentally excessive.
  • The movie's ending was a bit too oozy with sentiment. (The film's conclusion was excessively sentimental.)

Variants and Related Words

• Ooze (verb): To flow or leak out slowly.
  • Sap oozed from the tree.
• Ooze (noun): A slow flow or leak; also, soft mud or slime.
  • They tracked ooze from the swamp into the house.
• Oozing (adjective/gerund): The act or state of leaking slowly.
  • The oozing sap attracted insects.

Synonyms

• Seeping: Flowing or leaking slowly.
• Muddy: Full of or covered in mud.
• Soggy: Heavy with water; soaked.
• Viscous: Having a thick, sticky consistency.

Related Phrases

• Ooze out: To escape or come out slowly.
  • Confidence seemed to ooze out of him as the interview continued.
• Ooze with: To be full of or exhibit an abundance of something (often a quality) in an obvious way.
  • The politician's speech oozed with false sincerity.

Related Idioms

• Ooze charm/confidence: To exhibit a very noticeable amount of charm or confidence.
  • He just oozes charm, making everyone in the room feel at ease.

Adjective

1. leaking out slowly