ooze

1. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To be secreted or slowly leak.Examples: "I promised him I would keep silence, but the story gradually oozed out, and the Cronsons left the country."; "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."; "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."figurativelyintransitivesometimes

2. (transitive, figuratively) To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude.Examples: "[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated."; ""Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance."; "There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams."figurativelytransitive

1. (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.Examples: "Seaweed were left on the blackened marble, while the salt ooze defaced the matchless works of art."countableuncountable