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Pooty
Definitions
- 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..."
- 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."
- 1 Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999. derogatory, slang
- 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 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
Possibly a shortening of poontang.
Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.
Clipping of Pootin + -y.
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