Puss vs Ooze - What's the difference?
puss | ooze |
(informal) A cat.
A girl or young woman.
(dated, hunting) A hare.
(vulgar, slang) Vulva (female genitalia).
(slang) The mouth.
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,
* {{quote-news
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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
As nouns the difference between puss and ooze
is that puss is a cat while ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.As a verb ooze is
to be secreted or slowly leak.puss
English
Etymology 1
From a Common (etyl) word for cat. Akin to (etyl) , West Frisian (m), (etyl) (m), (m), Danish (m), dialectal (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Found also in several other European and Western Asian languages. Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
(es)- Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
Synonyms
* (cat) moggie/moggyEtymology 2
Of (etyl) origin, from or akin to (etyl) .Noun
(es)- She gave him a slap in the puss .
Synonyms
* (mouth) cakehole, gob, mush, trapAnagrams
* ----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.