ooze
English
/uːz/
noun
Definitions
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
- (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
- (obsolete) Juice, sap.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wose (sap) inherited from Old English wōs (juice, sap, moisture, froth, exuded liquid, liquor) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wōsą (juice, moisture) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh₂ (sap) inherited from Middle English wosen.
Origin
Middle English
wosen
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- oozily English
- ooziness English
- oozy English
- woosy English
- wooze English
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *wóseh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wōsą Proto-Germanic
- wos Old English
- wāse Old English
- wōs Old English
- wōsan Old English
- वसा Sanskrit
- *wosy Middle English
- woose Middle English
- wose Middle English
- wosen Middle English
- wus Middle English
- vasā Pali
- *wásaH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- wuss Scots
- *wásaH Proto-Indo-Aryan