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Sooty

//ˈsʊti// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or producing soot.

    "Fire of sooty coal."

  2. 2
    Soiled with soot
  3. 3
    Of the color of soot.

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

  4. 4
    Dark-skinned; black. literary, obsolete

    "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, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal wordnet
  2. 2
    covered with or as if with soot wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To blacken or make dirty with soot.

    "Sootied with noisome smoke."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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