Slowly seeps or leaks out, usually in small amounts; or to seem to have a quality in abundance.
From Middle English 'ousen,' possibly from Old English 'ooze' meaning a type of discharge or mud. The word is likely onomatopoetic, mimicking the sound of slow seeping.
The verb 'oozes' creates this perfect atmospheric quality—when writers say someone 'oozes confidence,' they're using a disgusting bodily function to mean something actually cool, which shows how metaphor lets us say things we couldn't otherwise.
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