Booze vs. Ooze

Boozenoun

Any alcoholic beverage.

Oozenoun

Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.

Boozenoun

A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

Oozenoun

An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.

Boozeverb

(slang) To drink alcohol.

‘We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.’;

Oozenoun

(obsolete) Secretion, humour.

Boozeverb

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.

‘This is better than boozing in public houses.’;

Oozenoun

(obsolete) Juice, sap.

Boozenoun

A carouse; a drinking.

Oozenoun

Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.

Boozenoun

any alcoholic beverage, especially a strong beverage such as whiskey.

Oozenoun

(oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.

Boozenoun

distilled rather than fermented

Oozenoun

A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

Boozeverb

consume alcohol;

‘We were up drinking all night’;

Oozeverb

(intransitive) To be secreted or slowly leak.

Boozenoun

alcoholic drink

‘I wonder where he's hidden his booze’;

Oozeverb

To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.

Boozeverb

drink alcohol, especially in large quantities

‘I expect he's boozing’; ‘Michael is trying to quit boozing’;

Oozenoun

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.

Oozenoun

Soft flow; spring.

Oozenoun

The liquor of a tan vat.

Oozenoun

A soft deposit covering large areas of the ocean bottom, composed largely or mainly of the shells or other hard parts of minute organisms, as Foraminifera, Radiolaria, and diatoms. The radiolarian ooze occurring in many places in very deep water is composed mainly of the siliceous skeletons of radiolarians, calcareous matter being dissolved by the lage percentage of carbon dioxide in the water at these depths.

Oozeverb

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.

‘The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass.’;

Oozeverb

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

Oozeverb

To cause to ooze.

Oozenoun

any thick messy substance

Oozenoun

the process of seeping

Oozeverb

pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Oozeverb

release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities;

‘exude sweat through the pores’;