English Explanatory Dictionary

ouze

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Mud.

Word forms

ouze oose ouse oase oaze oze oes

Etymology

Partly from Middle English woose, wose, woos, from Old English wōs (“juice, liquor, sap”); partly from Middle English wose, wase, from Old English wāse, wase (“mud, mire, marsh, slime”). Cognate with Low German wees (“wet, ooze, mire”), German Wasen (“sod, turf”), Icelandic veisa (“mire, bog”). More at ooze.

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