ooze

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ooze1

▶verb

• 1 (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out.

  ■ slowly exude or discharge (a viscous fluid).

• 2 give a powerful impression of (a quality): she oozes charm.

▶noun

• 1 the sluggish flow of a fluid.

• 2 an infusion of oak bark or other vegetable matter, used in tanning.

– derivatives
oozy adjective.

– origin OE wōs ‘juice or sap’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ooze2

▶noun wet mud or slime, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or sea.

– derivatives
oozy adjective .

– origin OE wāse; rel. to ON veisa ‘stagnant pool’, influenced by ooze1.