oozle

plural oozles

1. painting; watercolor; painting; watercolorAn effect created by dropping clear water onto a painted section before it is dry, forming a burst of color.

   The clusters of Queen Anne's lace are suggested by "oozles," drops of clear water falling on the wash just before it is dry.

   1966, Rex Brandt, The artists' sketchbook and its uses, page 85

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   The painting of foliage is next shown and explained by O'Hara—he blocks out the large areas with a rough brush: labels these areas with marks that characterize the leaves themselves as in the catalpa, horse chestnut. eucalyptus, and other trees from many parts of the country: paints trees in blossom with a trick of his own which he has nicknamed "oozles"; and finally paints a landscape in which some trees are sharply detailed and others blurred in the distance.

   1954, AV Guide: The Learning Media Magazine - Volume 33, page 336

   Jade distinguished between using what he called "oozles" of clean water to make runs within a painted area and spattering color over an area to create textures.

   1985, Ernest William Watson, Arthur Leighton Guptill, American Artist - Volume 49, page 83

   Here you see your life as a watercolorist's work: a fluid smear of selves laid over and shimmering against a blank background, what Buddhists call shunyata, emptiness or basic openness. You hope the artist knows about oozles, can keep the paper wet, feet green, faces half-hidden in the water, vision shifting and kaleidoscopic.

   2001, Barbara Hurd, Stirring the mud: on swamps, bogs, and human imagination, page 43

   Watercolor effects like accidental bursts of color, what Meyer calls “oozles,” are no longer prevented or covered up, but instead have become important parts of the painting.

   2002, the artist's magazine, page 57

present singular third person oozles · participle present oozling · participle past oozled · past oozled

1. To sneak; to creep or sidle.

   Blackie started to oozle forward, inching along on his belly.

   2012, W. Michael, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, A Searing Wind

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   The woman regarded me closely, I think for the first time. "Why, hello, Jasper! When did you oozle in?"

   1924, Harry Leon Wilson -, Professor how Could You!

   Margaret loses some of her cool and her sing-song voice turns a shade hysterical as a Mudman oozles up beside her.

   1971, The Bulletin - Volume 93, Issues 4762-4774, page 43

2. To flow sinuously; to seep or ooze;

   The Saint lit his long clay pipe and the smoke oozled up around the puffs on his wig and drifted and sank soothingly about his troubled countenance.

   1897, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 62

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   I done fin' out, Brer Wolf, dat w'en you git in a holler tree un somebody sets it a-fier, dat de nat'al honey des oozles out uv it, un mor'n dat, atter you git de honey all over you, 't aint no use ter try ter burn you up, 'kaze de honey will puzzuv you.

   1883, Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Uncle Remus

   He smoked a black pipe with a stem two inches long by actual measurement, and he talked through it : the words and smoke seemed to oozle out together.

   1903, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 22, page 207

   For this method is what the Hungarians refer to as "wine-asking", and "wine-asking" it is. inasmuch as after a bite of it the wine oozles down your throat like an opened bottle of ink over a Bokhara rug.

   1931, Harper's Bazaar - Volume 65, page 166