different between filth vs ooze

English

Etymology

From Middle English filth, from Old English f?lþu, from Proto-West Germanic *f?liþu, equivalent to foul +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

filth (usually uncountable, plural filths)

1. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

2. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Excellency of the Christian Religion

     purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights

3. (Britain, derogatory, slang, with definite article) The police.

4. (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
5. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: o?oz, IPA^(key): /u?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Homophone: oohs

Etymology 1

• (Noun) Middle English wose (“sap”), from Old English w?s (“sap, froth”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (cf. Middle Low German wose (“scum”), Old High German wasal (“rain”), Old Swedish os, oos), from Proto-Indo-European *wóseh? (“sap”) (cf. Sanskrit ??? (vás?, “fat”)).
• (Verb) Middle English wosen, from wose (wose, “sap”); see above.

Noun

ooze (countable and uncountable, plural oozes)

1. Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
2. An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
3. (obsolete) Secretion, humour.
4. (obsolete) Juice, sap.

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Verb

ooze (third-person singular simple present oozes, present participle oozing, simple past and past participle oozed)

1. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To be secreted or slowly leak.
   • 1868, Charlotte Riddell, A Strange Christmas Game

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

   • 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 1994, Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life, Vintage Books (1995), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • 2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux (2011), ?ISBN, page 278:

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

2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.
   • 1989, Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

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

   • 1999, Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility, Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ?ISBN, page 16:

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

Derived terms

• oozy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wose, from Old English w?se (“mud, mire”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *wais? (compare Dutch waas (“haze, mist; bloom”), (obsolete) German Wasen (“turf, sod”), Old Norse veisa (“slime, stagnant pool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weis (“to flow”) (compare Sanskrit ??????? (vi?yati, “flow, let loose”)). More at virus.

Noun

ooze (plural oozes)

1. Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

2. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter

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

3. A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.