different between ooze vs dribble

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.

Translations

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.

English

Etymology

drib +? -le (early modern English frequentative suffix)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??.b?l/, /d??.bl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.b??/, /?d??.b(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Verb

dribble (third-person singular simple present dribbles, present participle dribbling, simple past and past participle dribbled)

1. (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly
2. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
3. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
4. (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     let her [the cook] follow him softly with a ladle full, and dribble it all the way up stairs to the dining-room

5. (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
6. To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.

Descendants

• ? Czech: driblovat
• ? French: dribbler

Translations

Noun

dribble (countable and uncountable, plural dribbles)

1. (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
2. (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
3. (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
4. (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
5. (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.

Translations

Related terms

• crossover dribble
• double dribble
• dribble glass
• dribble penetration
• dribbly
• kill one's dribble

Anagrams

• dibbler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English dribble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ibl/

Noun

dribble m (plural dribbles)

1. (sports) dribble

Verb

dribble

1. first-person singular present indicative of dribbler
2. third-person singular present indicative of dribbler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dribbler
5. second-person singular imperative of dribbler

German

Verb

dribble

1. inflection of dribbeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I