sooty
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈsʊti/
  • (dialectal) IPA: /ˈsʌti/
Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

  1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
      Fire of sooty coal.
  2. Soiled with soot
  3. Of the color of soot.
    • {{RQ:Milton Comus|passage=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, […]
Synonyms Translations Translations Verb

sooty (sooties, present participle sootying; past and past participle sootied)

  1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.
    • Sootied with noisome smoke.



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