# 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: /ˈsʊti/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (dialectal) IPA: /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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Fire of sooty coal.
** 2023 December 13, Robin Leleux, “Restored... and a richly deserved award: Findlater's Corner”, in RAIL, number 998, page 43:The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
* Soiled with soot
* Of the color of soot.
** 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; 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: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

* Albertine sooty boubou (Laniarius holomelas)
* sooty albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
* sooty bark disease
* sooty blotch and flyspeck
* sooty grouse
* sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus)
* sooty-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster)
* sooty-headed wren
* sooty orange tip (Zegris eupheme)
* sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)

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### 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; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:Sootied with noisome smoke.The spelling has been modernized.

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## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* soti, soty, soyty, sotye

### Etymology

From soot +‎ -y.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.