Ooze vs Dribble - What's the difference?
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Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
Secretion, humour.
A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
To be secreted or slowly leak.
* 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241,
* 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087,
* 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826,
(figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
* 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548,
* 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077,
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Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
* Shakespeare
A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
The liquor of a tanning vat.
English terms with multiple etymologies
To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet
(basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;
To advance by dribbling
to let something fall in drips
* Jonathan Swift
in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks
A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
A small amount of a liquid.
In sport, the act of dribbling.
Ooze is a related term of dribble.
As verbs the difference between ooze and dribble
is that ooze is to be secreted or slowly leak while dribble is .As a noun ooze
is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning or ooze can be soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.ooze
English
Etymology 1
* ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.Noun
(en noun)Verb
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
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- "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
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- There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
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Etymology 2
(etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.Noun
(en noun)- My son i' the ooze is bedded.
dribble
English
Verb
(dribbl)- Let the cook dribble it all the way upstairs.