ooze

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. (countable, uncountable)An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Secretion, humour.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Juice, sap.
5. (countable, uncountable)Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

   “my son i' th' ooze is bedded.”

   “It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

   “Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art.”

7. (countable, uncountable)A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

verb

1. (figuratively, intransitive, sometimes)To be secreted or slowly leak.

   “I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country.”

   “She picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out. “Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.”

   “Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.”

   “He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.”

   “Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.”

2. (figuratively, transitive)To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

   “[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.”

   “"Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.”

   “There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.”

   “Newcastle had failed to penetrate a typically organised Stoke backline in the opening stages but, once Cabaye and then Cisse breached their defence, Newcastle oozed confidence and controlled the game with a swagger expected of a top-four team.”

   “Many of the stations, some of which are request stops, still have their original LSWR buildings. All are now private homes, but it oozes nostalgia (which I like).”