English

Adjective

oozy ‎(comparative oozier, superlative ooziest)

1. Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V,

     A daughter? / O heavens, that they were living both in Naples, / The king and queen there! that they were, I wish / Myself were mudded in that oozy bed / Where my son lies.

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter Thirteen,

     [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., p. 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, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter IX, I, p. 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, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, Oxford University Press, Chapter 1,

     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."