sooty

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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

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

  1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Fire of sooty coal.
  2. Soiled with soot
  3. Of the color of soot.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
  4. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
    • 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

Derived terms

  • sooty albatross(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{vern}} with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.)
  • sooty tern

Translations

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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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Sootied with noisome smoke.

Translations

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From soot +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sooty (rare)

  1. Soiled with soot; sooty.

Descendants

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

References

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