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Definition: Sooty |
SootyAdjective1. Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sooty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Sooty \Soot"y\, adjective. [Compar Sootier; superlative Sootiest.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SootySynonyms: coal-black (adj), jet (adj), jet-black (adj), pitchy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sooty |
| English words defined with "sooty": Egg-bird ♦ Fuliginous ♦ Hagdon, Hydrobates pelagicus ♦ Mamgabey ♦ northern storm petrel ♦ Sootish, stormy petrel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sooty": amorphous graphite ♦ scale insects. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sooty Show (1968) Sooty Sketches (1909) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sooty. Credit: Bob Hines. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In an eclipse, in night, in the sooty darkness, there is anxiety even to the strongest. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The first man I saw was of a meager aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sooty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.86% of the time. "Sooty" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 62.86% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.14% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Total | 100.00% | 175 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sooty": get sooty ♦ sooty albatross ♦ sooty bark ♦ sooty black ♦ sooty mold ♦ sooty mould ♦ sooty tern. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sooty": sooty-black, sooty-faced, sooty-looking, sooty-mania, sooty-thick, sooty-walled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sooty | 22 |
sooty sweep | 12 |
mangabey sooty | 9 |
bear sooty sweep teddy uk | 8 |
sooty mold | 7 |
show sooty | 6 |
bear sooty teddy | 6 |
sooty sweep uk | 6 |
bear sooty teddy uk | 5 |
bear sooty sweep teddy | 4 |
co sooty | 3 |
owl sooty | 3 |
guinea pig sooty | 2 |
shearwater sooty | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sooty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zi (black, bold, coaly, darksome, ebon, ebony, inky, mourning, nigrescent, pitchy, Raven, sable, unfortunate), i nxirë (blackened, livid, smoky), i mbuluar me blozë (fuliginous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سخامي, أسخم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | черен (black, nigrescent, sable, thick), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, unlit), покрит със сажди. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 煤烟灰. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sazovitý, zakoptìný, zaèernìný sazemi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sodskimmel (black mould, sooty mold, sooty mould), sodplet (sooty blotch of apple), sodgraa albatros (light-mantle sooty albatros), sodfarvet terne (sooty tern), sodfarvet skraape (sooty shearwater), branddug (sooty mold, sooty mould), aeblesodplet (sooty blotch of apple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roetvlekkenziekte (sooty blotch of apple), roetkopalbatros (light-mantle sooty albatros), roetdauwschimmel (black mould, sooty mould), roetdauw (black mould, sooty mold, sooty mould), leigrijze valk (sooty falcon), grauwe pijlstormvogel (sooty shearwater), fumago (sooty mold, sooty mould), bonte stern (sooty tern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سیاه (Black, Grimy, Jetty, Negro), دوده ای کردن , دوده ای . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nokinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noir de suie, fuligineux, enfumé, couvert de suie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rußig (grimy, sootily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπνισμένοσ (smoky), καπνιστόσ (smoky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפויח (smutty), מעושן (bloater, fumigated, smoked), פיחי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kormos (fuliginous, grimy, smoky, smutty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fuligginoso (smutty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 背'鰺刺 (sooty tern), 煤ける (to be sooty, to be stained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すすける (to be sooty, to be stained), せぐろあじさし (sooty tern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 그을은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sooieagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ootysay sujo com fuligem, coberto de fuligem. (various references) negru de funingine, acoperit de funingine. (various references) цвета сажи (fuliginous), в саже, покрытый копотью. (various references) garavo, čađav (grimy, smutty). (various references) negro como el hollín, hollinoso, holliniento. (various references) sotig (grimy, smutty). (various references) ปกคลุม"้วยเขม่า. (various references) siyah (black, ivory black, nigr-, sable), kurumlu (haughty, high and mighty, pontifical), kara (black, earth, ground, ivory black, land, nigr-, overland, sable, shore, smut, terra firma, territorial), külrengi (ash-colored, Gray, grey, grizzle), isli (blackened, smudgy). (various references) чорний як сажа, закопчений (crocky, dingy, fuliginous, grimy, smoked, smutty). (various references) đầy muội đen như b" hóng, đầy b" hóng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Antennaria elaeophila, Apiosporium spp., Capnodium elaeophilum, Dothidea pomigena, Falco concolor, Fumago vagans, Gloeodes pomigena, Marssonina mali, Phoebetria palpebrata, Phyllosticta solitaria, Procellaria grisea, Puffinus griseus, Sterna fuscata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sooty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cooty, dooty, kooty, mooty, Ostomy, pooty, rooty, Sautoy, sauty, scooty, scouty, shootey, shotty, shotyk, Sodovyn, sofy, sooey, sooky, soory, sopot, sorty, soti, soto, sotoy, sotty, soty, souty, soyt, spooty, spoty, spouty, sroot, stoty, suety, suty, tooty, zioty, Zogoth, zooty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sooty" (pronounced suw"tē) |
| 3 | -uw" t ē | beauty, bootie, booty, duty, fluty, fruity, snooty, Tutti. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: toyos. | |
| Words within the letters "o-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: oots, soot, toyo, toys. | |
-2 letters: oot, sot, soy, sty, too, toy. | |
-3 letters: os, oy, so, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: footsy, oocyst, ostomy, snooty, tootsy, toyons. | |
+2 letters: coyotes, cytosol, isotopy, myosote, oocysts, oocytes, otocyst, postboy, potboys, smoothy, soothly, sootily, tomboys, toyshop, tycoons. | |
+3 letters: botryose, boycotts, cytosols, footboys, footways, isotropy, jocosity, morosity, myosotes, myosotis, myotomes, nodosity, nonstory, oophytes, otiosely, otiosity, otocysts, otoscopy, oxytones, polycots, porosity, postboys, sitology, slyboots, smoothly, snootily, sonority, soothsay, sorority, toponyms, torosity, toyshops, typhoons, vasotomy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6F 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- --- - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101111 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o o t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006F 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381818691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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