- Mud and ooze
- booze
Dictionary of Australian slang . 2013.
Mud and ooze
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mud and ooze — Australian Slang booze … English dialects glossary
mud — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep ▪ thick ▪ soft, sticky, wet ▪ dried, dry ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Ooze — Ooze, n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w?s juice, ooze, Icel. v[=a]s wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.] 1. Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. My son i the ooze is bedded. Shak.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ooze — ooze1 /oohz/, v., oozed, oozing, n. v.i. 1. (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings. 2. to move or pass slowly or gradually, as if through a small opening or passage: The crowd oozed… … Universalium
ooze — {{11}}ooze (n.) soft mud, O.E. wase soft mud, mire, from P.Gmc. *waison (Cf. O.S. waso wet ground, mire, O.N. veisa pond of stagnant water ), from PIE *weis to flow (Cf. L. virus slime, poison, and possibly also viscum birdlime, mistletoe ).… … Etymology dictionary
ooze — I [[t]uz[/t]] v. oozed, ooz•ing, n. 1) (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings 2) to move or pass slowly or gradually 3) (of a substance) to exude moisture 4) (of something abstract, as… … From formal English to slang
ooze — [[t]u͟ːz[/t]] oozes, oozing, oozed 1) V ERG When a thick or sticky liquid oozes from something or when something oozes it, the liquid flows slowly and in small quantities. He saw there was a big hole in the back of the man s head, blood was still … English dictionary
ooze — ooze1 [u:z] v [I always + adverb/preposition, T] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: OOZE22] 1.) if a thick liquid oozes from something or if something oozes a thick liquid, that liquid flows from it very slowly ooze from/out of/through ▪ The ice cream was … Dictionary of contemporary English
mud — Synonyms and related words: baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, clay, dirt, dust, everglade, fen, fenland, glade, grime, gumbo, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass … Moby Thesaurus
ooze — a muddy deposit of the deep ocean composed mostly of shells, foraminiferans and diatoms, or mud saturated with water … Dictionary of ichthyology
