sootish

English

Etymology

soot +‎ -ish

Adjective

sootish (comparative more sootish, superlative most sootish)

1. (obsolete or rare) sooty
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     things become blacke by a sootish and fuliginious matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified

References

• “sootish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.