Sekirov Dictionary

sooty

/ˈsʊti/

adjective 4
verb 1
forms 5

adjective4

•
Of, relating to, or producing soot.
- Fire of sooty coal. — 1667
Soiled with soot
•
Of the color of soot.
- The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron. — 1634
•
(literary, no longer used) Dark-skinned; black.
- 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, […] — 1834

verb1

•
To blacken or make dirty with soot.
- Sootied with noisome smoke. — 1614

forms

sootied · sootying · sooties · sootier · sootiest

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