Pooty

adj, adv, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pretty. dialectal

    "1857, The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty "Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin..."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Pretty (somewhat, fairly). dialectal, not-comparable

    ""Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999. derogatory, slang
Noun
  1. 1
    The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina. colloquial, countable, uncountable

    "Things started to go wrong between the angel and me after Cindy Hacklight showed me her pooty in seventh grade. Cindy had made a sort of cottage industry of showing her pooty to anyone—girl or boy—who would give her five dollars, a large sum back then, before high-school inflation."

  2. 2
    Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell. England, Northamptonshire, dialectal

    "Do 'e remember that nest then? and the pooty shells I collected for you, and all our playings?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly a shortening of poontang.

Etymology 2

Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.

Etymology 3

Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.

Etymology 4

Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.

Etymology 5

Clipping of Pootin + -y.

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