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  • noun The state or condition of being oozy.

Etymologies

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oozy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I think that I loaded more into the novel's most obvious hook - the strange disappearances coupled with the film's whole soft-focus ooziness - and thus found the actual novel and the boring "real explanation" appended subordinate to my wild speculations.

    Picnic at Hanging Rock (redux) 2008

  • A fragrance with the womanly ooziness of Femme--I must try.

    Perfume Review: Amouage Jubilation 25...and a Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2007

  • And then how daintily they took the wet upon their dusty plumes, and ducked their shoulders to it, and began to dress themselves, and laid their grooved bills on the snow, and dabbled for more ooziness!

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He had safely negotiated that stretch of sand by daylight, though even then it had needed an alert eye to detect that slight ooziness of surface that denoted the presence of the sea-swamp.

    The Tidal Wave and Other Stories 1910

  • And then how daintily they took the wet upon their dusty plumes, and ducked their shoulders to it, and began to dress themselves, and laid their grooved bills on the snow, and dabbled for more ooziness!

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • Cakespy’s Lava Cookies don’t quite have the same level of ooziness as their cake predecessors, but if you serve them warm you can still get a very satisfying mouthful of melty chocolate.

    Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites 2009

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