sooty

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

IPA^(key): /ˈsʊti/
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(dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌti/
Rhymes: -ʊti

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

Of, relating to, or producing soot.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  Fire of sooty coal.
Soiled with soot
Of the color of soot.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
  The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
(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, […]
- 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

(dark-skinned): black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthy

Derived terms

sooty albatross
sooty tern

Translations

of, relating to, or producing soot

Armenian:
Old Armenian: յոլովամեղծ (yolovamełc)
Finnish: nokinen (fi)
French: fuligineux (fr)
Italian: fuligginoso (it)
Latin: fūlīginōsus
Persian: دودناکی‎ (dūdnākī)
Portuguese: fuliginoso
Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
Spanish: fuliginoso (es)

soiled with soot

Bulgarian: опушен (bg) (opušen), покрит със сажди (pokrit sǎs saždi)
Italian: caliginoso (it)
Latin: cācabātus
Middle English: sooty
Plautdietsch: beroomt
Romanian: funinginos (ro) m
Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
Spanish: tiznado (es), hollinoso, holliniento m

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Czech: ^{(please verify)} čadivý (cs)
German: ^{(please verify)} rußig (de)

Verb

sooty (third-person singular simple present sooties, present participle sootying, simple past and past participle sootied)

To blacken or make dirty with soot.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, OCLC 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380:
  Sootied with noisome smoke.

Translations

to blacken or make dirty with soot

Scottish Gaelic: sùith

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German: ^{(please verify)} rußen (de)

Middle English

Alternative forms

soti, soty, soyty, sotye

Etymology

From soot +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsoːtiː/

Adjective

sooty(rare)

Soiled with soot; sooty.

Descendants

English: sooty
Scots: suitie, sitty, sittie

References

“sọ̄tī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.