sooty

English

Etymology

From Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot +‎ -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English besūtian (“to befoul”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʊti/

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• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌti/
• Rhymes: -ʊti

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Fire of sooty coal.

2. Soiled with soot
3. Of the color of soot.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.

4. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
   • 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia:

     While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]

   • 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

     And, though I've laughed at your expense, / O sister of the sooty hue, / No man who has a heart and sense / Would do one deed to injure you.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthy

Derived terms

• Albertine sooty boubou
• sooty albatross
• sooty bark disease
• sooty grunter
• sooty orange tip
• sooty tern

 

Translations

of, relating to, or producing soot

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: յոլովամեղծ (yolovamełc)

• Finnish: nokinen (fi)
• French: fuligineux (fr)
• Ingrian: noekas
• Italian: fuligginoso (it)
• Latin: fūlīginōsus
• Persian: دودناکی‎ (dudnâki)
• Portuguese: fuliginoso
• Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
• Serbo-Croatian: čađav (sh), čađni (sh)
• Spanish: fuliginoso (es)

soiled with soot

• Bulgarian: опушен (bg) (opušen), покрит със сажди (pokrit sǎs saždi)
• Ingrian: noekas
• Italian: caliginoso (it)
• Latin: cācabātus
• Macedonian: са́ѓав (sáǵav), и́счаден (ísčaden), ча́бав (čábav)
• Middle English: sooty
• Plautdietsch: beroomt
• Romanian: funinginos (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
• Serbo-Croatian: čađav (sh)
• Spanish: tiznado (es), hollinoso, holliniento m

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• Czech: ^{(please verify)} čadivý (cs)
• German: ^{(please verify)} rußig (de)

Verb

sooty (third-person singular simple present sooties, present participle sootying, simple past and past participle sootied)

1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Sootied with noisome smoke.

Translations

to blacken or make dirty with soot

• Scottish Gaelic: sùith

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• German: ^{(please verify)} rußen (de)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• soti, soty, soyty, sotye

Etymology

From soot +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːtiː/

Adjective

sooty (rare)

1. Soiled with soot; sooty.

Descendants

• English: sooty
• Scots: suitie, sitty, sittie

References

• “sọ̄tī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.