sooty

English

Etymology

soot +‎ -y

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ʊti

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

of, relating to, or producing soot
- Milton
  Fire of sooty coal.
soiled with soot
of the color of soot
- Milton
  The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.

Derived terms

Translations

of, relating to, or producing soot

Armenian:
Old Armenian: յոլովամեղծ (yolovamełc)
Finnish: nokinen (fi)
French: fuligineux (fr)
Italian: fuligginoso (it)

Latin: fūlīginōsus
Portuguese: fuliginoso
Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
Spanish: fuliginoso (es)

soiled with soot

Italian: caliginoso (it)
Latin: cācabātus

Scottish Gaelic: sùitheach
Spanish: tiznado (es), hollinoso

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Czech: ^{(please verify)} čadivý

German: ^{(please verify)} rußig

Verb

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

To blacken or make dirty with soot.
- Chapman
  Sootied with noisome smoke.

Translations

to blacken or make dirty with soot

Scottish Gaelic: sùith

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German: ^{(please verify)} rußen (de)

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