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Definition: Oozing |
OozingAdjective1. Leaking out slowly. Noun1. The process of seeping. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oozing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Synonyms: OozingSynonyms: oozy (adj), seeping (adj), ooze (n), seepage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cowardice | Phrase: ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos timor arguit. |
Egress | Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Oozing |
| Specialty definitions using "oozing": Abdomen ♦ Paget's disease of the nipple ♦ Skin Diseases, Eczematous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "oozing": stalactite. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All we found were these oozing berries, and they look pretty poisonous (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Oozing out my ears (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) Riding in the back, oozing down the street (Pink Cadillac; performing artist: Natalie Cole) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It had been paved with tiles, but, under the oozing of the waters, the pavement had rotted and broken up. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The first and most important endoscopic predictor of persistent or recurrent bleeding is active bleeding at the time of endoscopy, as evidenced by arterial spurting or oozing. (references) | |
The observations at endoscopy should then determine whether endoscopic hemostatic therapy should be carried out. There is consensus that the findings of pulsatile bleeding ("spurting") or oozing from the ulcer are indications for treatment. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Oozing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.46% of the time. "Oozing" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.46% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.74% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "oozing": one's courage oozing out. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "oozing": chaos-oozing, pus-oozing, slow-oozing, vitamin-oozing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
oozing pussy | 24 |
oozing | 19 |
pussy oozing cum | 16 |
cum oozing | 11 |
goo oozing | 6 |
oozing cunt | 5 |
cream oozing pie | 2 |
ass cum hole oozing | 2 |
oozing vagina | 2 |
cunts oozing | 2 |
assholes cum oozing | 2 |
oozing sperm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "oozing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ترشح (candidate, elect, filter, nominate, percolate, present, put in, run, run for office, stand, transpire). (various references) | |
Chinese | 渗流 (OOZE, Oozed, seepage, transfusion). (various references) | |
Danish | sivebroend (oozing well, seeping well), sivbloedning (oozing haemorrhage), draenbroend (oozing well, seeping well). (various references) | |
Dutch | spreng (mineral water spring, oozing well, seeping well, source), bloedtransudatie (oozing haemorrhage). (various references) | |
Finnish | suotokaivo (oozing well, seeping well), imeyntäkaivo (oozing well, seeping well). (various references) | |
French | infiltration. (various references) | |
German | sickernd (dripping, seeping). (various references) | |
Greek | απορροφητικό φρέαρ (oozing well, seeping well), αποστραγγιστικό φρέαρ (oozing well, seeping well). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ליפ" (dripping, leak, leakage, seepage, trickling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | párolgás (evaporation), nedves (clammy, dank, humid, lush, moist, oozy, sammy, sloppy, soggy, steamy, wet), csepegés (dribble, drip, dripping, dropping, ooze, running), csepegő (dripping). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perembesan (infiltration, leakage). (various references) | |
Italian | pozzo filtrante (oozing well, seeping well), gemizio ematico (oozing haemorrhage). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oozingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemorragia difusa (oozing haemorrhage). (various references) | |
Russian | сочиться растекание. (various references) | |
Scottish | drùdhadh (soaking). (various references) | |
Spanish | pozo de filtración (oozing well, seeping well). (various references) | |
Swedish | dräneringsbrunn (oozing well, seeping well). (various references) | |
Turkish | sızma (efflux, infiltration, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow, percolation, permeation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "oozing": boozing, schmoozing, shmoozing, snoozing. (additional references) | |
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"Oozing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kozinc, Oescinga, ohing, okosan, oofing, oohing, ooking, oomin, oosing, oozi, oozingly, oozings, osing, ousing, oxing, ozin, Ozun, uzin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "oozing" (pronounced uw"zing) |
| 4 | uw" z i ng | abusing, accusing, amusing, boozing, bruising, choosing, confusing, cruising, defusing, diffusing, excusing, fusing, infusing, losing, misusing, musing, overusing, perusing, recusing, refusing, reusing, schmoozing, snoozing, using. |
| 3 | -z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, bowsing, browsing, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reimposing, reorganizing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-o-z" | |
-1 letter: gonzo. | |
-2 letters: goon, zing, zoon. | |
-3 letters: gin, goo, ion, nog, noo, zig, zin, zoo. | |
-4 letters: go, in, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-o-z" | |
+1 letter: boozing, zooming. | |
+2 letters: foozling, snoozing, zoogenic. | |
+3 letters: gorgonize, odorizing, ozonating, ozonising, ozonizing, shmoozing, snoozling. | |
+4 letters: colonizing, colorizing, gorgonized, gorgonizes, homogenize, motorizing, opsonizing, robotizing, schizogony, schmoozing, sodomizing. | |
+5 letters: anthologize, apologizing, bamboozling, deodorizing, economizing, geologizing, gorgonizing, homogenized, homogenizer, homogenizes, monozygotic, nonionizing, outorganize, photolyzing, podzolizing, prologizing, schizogonic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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