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Definition of Ooziness
1. the state of being oozy [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ooziness
Literary usage of Ooziness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"... and ducked their shoulders to it, and began to dress themselves, and laid
their grooved bills on the snow, and dabbled for more ooziness! ..."
2. The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (1818)
"... in the singeing of muslin, which, in the process of the manufacture, is drawn
over a red hot cylinder to burn away the ooziness and loose threads. ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1884)
"There is really very little remarkable in it, except even a greater sense of
dampness and ooziness than in the other Dutch villages. ..."
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