Ooze vs. Goo — What's the Difference?

To flow or leak out slowly, as through small openings.

A sticky wet viscous substance.

To disappear or ebb slowly

Sentimental drivel.

To progress slowly but steadily

Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.

To exude moisture.

(figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.

To emit a particular essence or quality

A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.

To give off; exude.

(transitive) To apply goo to something.

To emit or radiate in abundance

(intransitive) To produce baby talk.

The act of oozing.

Elongated form of go

Something that oozes.

Pronunciation spelling of go

An infusion of plant material, as from oak bark, formerly used in tanning.

Any thick messy substance

Soft mud or slime.

A layer of mudlike sediment on the floor of oceans and lakes, composed chiefly of remains of microscopic sea animals.

Muddy ground.

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

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

(obsolete) Secretion, humour.

(obsolete) Juice, sap.

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

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

A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.

To be secreted or slowly leak.

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

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

Soft flow; spring.

The liquor of a tan vat.

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.

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

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

To cause to ooze.

Any thick messy substance

The process of seeping

Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities;