Synonyms for oozy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : oo-zee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈu zi

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Définition of oozy

Origin :
  • Old English wosig "juicy, moist" (see ooze (v.)). Related: Ooziness.
  • adj slimy
Example sentences :
  • He rose to his feet, sinking almost to the top of his boots in the oozy slime.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The base of it lay in a definite hollow, reed-grown and oozy.
  • Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Again and again he struggled furiously to escape from the oozy quagmire.
  • Extract from : « The Camp in the Snow » by William Murray Graydon
  • But it is here, by this oozy margin, that they find the clay to frame their dwellings.
  • Extract from : « In the West Country » by Francis A. Knight
  • When it was almost as deep as his boot tops he got stuck in the oozy, mucky mud.
  • Extract from : « My Father's Dragon » by Ruth Stiles Gannett
  • If there's anything he hates, it is that kind of oozy writing.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James
  • He was back at the edge of that oozy, clinging, all devouring trap.
  • Extract from : « Tom Slade's Double Dare » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • She stepped in an oozy place and wet one foot, but she did not mind it.
  • Extract from : « Young Lucretia and Other Stories » by Mary E. Wilkins
  • The feet of the horses made a sucking sound on the oozy ground.
  • Extract from : « White Shadows in the South Seas » by Frederick O'Brien
  • There exhales from this oozy mass so fatal a vapour that no animal can endure it.
  • Extract from : « After London » by Richard Jefferies

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