See oozy on Wiktionary
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"text": "1912, James Stephens, Mary, Mary (published in the UK as The Charwoman's Daughter), New York: Boni & Liveright, Chapter XXIV, p. 175, https://archive.org/details/marymary00stepiala\nHer vocabulary could not furnish her with the qualifying word, or rather, epithet for his bigness. Horrible was suggested and retained, but her instinct clamored that there was a fat, oozy word somewhere which would have brought comfort to her brains and her hands and feet."
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"ref": "1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan & Co., page 38:",
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"ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 123:",
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"ref": "2015, Vincent Giroud, chapter 1, in Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, Oxford University Press:",
"text": "On birthdays and saints' days, Jewish musicians from the local community were invited to perform festive music and played \"an extraordinary variety of music: potpourris of famous operas, military marches, Viennese waltzes, and the ooziest gypsy songs and Jewish dances, rampant with glissandos, tremolos, and tearful vibratos.\"",
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