| 释义 |
oozy, a.|ˈuːzɪ|
Also 4–5 wosie, 6 woosye, 7–8 ouzy; in branch II, osie, ozie, oasy, oazy.
[In branch I, OE. wósiᵹ, f. wós juice, ooze n.1; in branch II, late ME. wosie, f. wose mud, ooze n.2; in III a later formation related to ooze v.1]
†I.
1. Full of moisture, juicy. (Only OE.)
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 270 Ðeos wyrt..ys wel wosiᵹ.
II. Related to ooze n.2, mud.
2. Of water: Charged with ooze or mud; muddy.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. v. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 129/1 The Ryuer Gion..comeþ oute of Paradise..it [is] troublye erþy slymy and wosie. 1782W. Gilpin Observ. Wye (1789) 53 It's waters now became ouzy, and discoloured. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 1075 Xanthus deep-dimpled rolls his oozy tide. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 172 A brook..Oozy and foul, half choked with grass.
3. Composed of or resembling ooze, having the consistency of wet mud or slime. Of a sea-bottom: Consisting of ooze or fine mud.
1563Golding Cæsar (1565) 113 b, Ryding at anchor in a woosye and open shore. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 639 Oasy mud in the botome. 1625Purchas Pilgrims II. viii. ii. §2. 1367 Great flats of Osie Quagmires. 1629Milton Ode Nativity 124 And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep. 1688Sir R. Redding 13 Oct. in Boate's Nat. Hist. Irel. (1726) 189 The bottoms,..part sandy, part stony, and part ouzey, and of a black clay. 1717Tabor in Phil. Trans. XXX. 802 The Lands in that Tract..are still very owzy and tender. 1730Wriglesworth Log Bk. of the Lyell 2 June, Anchored in 17 Fath{ddd}in Oazy Ground. 1775Romans Florida App. 71 Your first soundings will be about 80 fathom..oozy ground. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 298 These birds..frequent sea-shores, and the muddy and oozy margins of large rivers. 1854Badham Halieut. 42 An oozy bottom does best for flat fish, such as soles, turbots, and plaice. 1890H. H. Johnston in Nature 13 Nov. 45 All the oozy water-meadows are planted with rice.
fig.c1440Jacob's Well 68 Ȝoure body gaderyth euere more wose of synne,..þer-fore ȝoure body is a foul wosy pytt. 1617Hieron Wks. (1620) II. 225 The best of Gods children are now and then to bee dashed [= to-bedashed] as they trauell thorow this oosie and muddy world. 1879J. Cook Marriage 14 Any oozy region where the mere sediment of discussion settles.
b. Of a sound: Resembling that of something falling heavily on ooze.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xiii, It fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass.
III. Related to ooze v.1
4. Exuding moisture; damp with exuded or deposited moisture.
1714Gay Trivia iii. 197 The oozy Oyster. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Fistula, a hollow ouzy Ulcer in the Posteriors. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 543 The seer..Basks on the breezy shore..His oozy limbs. 1819Shelley Julian & Maddalo 219 We climbed the oozy stairs Into an old courtyard. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 102 The floor of the dungeon oozy with wet. 1863Woolner My beautiful Lady 20 Thrushes, which To feast on morsels oozy rich, Cracked poor snails' curling niche.
b. Slimy or damp: said of seaweed.
(Perhaps with some reference to ooze n.3)
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 128 Oozy wreath And dismal seaweed crown her. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 661 By oozy tangles grappled fast. 1819Shelley Ode to West Wind iii, The oozy woods [forests of seaweeds] which wear The sapless foliage of the ocean.
Hence ˈoozily adv., ˈooziness.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 706 Water-furrows made to drain the ouziness of the Earth. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. ii. ix, A salt and bitter ousiness. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxi. 15 Hands to the winds above Torches oozily swinging. |