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If you had a bottle of nothing but lymph, no blood or anything, how would it work? Would it be sticky? Viscous?

What about eye oils? Pus?

I'm working with large quantities of the stuff in some stories, I need to know how these liquids act on the same sort of scale that water does. Any medical opinions? Physics lessons? Personal experience?

Lymph nodes are generally supposed to be soft unless they're infected or cancerous then they're hard or rubbery.

Eye oil and pus would have a stickiness. Not super glue stickiness obviously, but just that very vague feeling of it.

I mean. like, the lymph fluid itself, not the nodes. No blood cells in it. Just the clear liquid that comes out when you've picked a scab so many times that your blood cells don't even come out for the false alarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph#/media/File:Homa_limfo_001.jpg