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oosy

oosy is the archaic form of oozy.

Meaning of oozy

Adjective

oozy (comparative oozier, superlative ooziest)

  1. Of or pertaining to the quality of something that oozes.
    • A daughter?
      Oh heauens, that they were liuing both in Nalpes
      The King and Queene there, that they were, I wish
      My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed
      Where my sonne lies: when did you lose your daughter?1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    Synonyms:
    weeping

Forms of oosy

comparativemore oosy
superlativemost oosy

Questions about oosy

What is oosy the archaic form of?
Oosy is the archaic form of oozy.

Words near oosy in the dictionary

  1. oosterboschite
  2. Oosterhout
  3. Oostkamp
  4. Ooststellingwerf
  5. Oostzaan
  6. oosy
  7. oot
  8. Ootacamund
  9. ootaxa
  10. ootaxon
  11. ootaxonomic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oosy (page history and authors); oozy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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