oose
/uːs/US/uz/
oose noun: fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool. Also the archaic form of ooze.
Noun (1)
oose (uncountable)
- Fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool.
- But I found how I could read in the bedroom and not lie on the bed. It was a wee place down between my bed and the wall where the door was. The bed was pressed against the wall but ye could just squash down and under. My da kept all suitcases under my bed but I shifted them the gether and it was...2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101348-7; page 100
- I used to collect oose. If you have an inny bellybutton, this is the linty stuff you find in its crevices at the end of the day when you have nothing better to do than explore useless parts of your body.2008, Zanzibar “Buck Buck” McFate, “A Grain of Dried Rat Shit”, in I Battled a Giant Otter: My Gut Bustin', Mutha Lovin' Life of Manly Adventure: A Tale of Mad Catastrophe, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse...
Noun (2)
oose
- Synonym of yucca.
- A favorite substitute for soap was the root of the "oose," or yucca, sometimes called "soap root." This root looked about like a sugarbeet. Cut up and left in water it soon made a fluffy suds. Colored clothes came out fresh and bright because the cleanser did not harm the dyes. White clothes...1860, Mary Ann Hafen, Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: With Some Account of Frontier Life in Utah and Nevada, Denver, Colo.: Privately printed for her [the author's] descendants...
- She climbed the Red Hill one cold day and dug oose root with which to bring a new luster to her long black hair.1941, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- yucca
Noun (3) capitalized: OOSE
OOSE (uncountable)
- Acronym of object-oriented software engineering.
Also used as
oose is also the archaic form of ooze.
Examples of oose in a sentence
- But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, London: Hamish Hamilton, ISBN 978-0-241-14241-7; 1st US edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2008, ISBN...
- A favorite substitute for soap was the root of the "oose," or yucca, sometimes called "soap root." This root looked about like a sugarbeet.1860, Mary Ann Hafen, Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: With Some Account of Frontier Life in Utah and Nevada, Denver, Colo....
- When I was older I went out on the hillsides and dug the roots of oose, or Amole as the Mexicans call it, which were excellent to use in place of soap.2009, Barbara Marriott, quoting Nancy Cedenia Bagley Willis (interviewed by Roberta Flake Clayton), “Life on the Frontier”, in In Our Own...
Synonyms of oose
Forms of oose
| third-person singular present | ooses |
|---|---|
| present participle | oosing |
| past participle | oosed |
| past | oosed |
Origin of oose
From Scots oose, an alternative form of oos, the plural form of oo (“wool”).
Questions about oose
- What does oose mean?
- Oose means fluff, particularly from a textile source such as cotton or wool.
- How do you use oose in a sentence?
- But when I came out it was all fluff and oose stuff down my pyjamas.
- What part of speech is oose?
- Oose is a noun.
- How do you pronounce oose?
- Oose is pronounced /uːs/ (UK).
Words near oose in the dictionary
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