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adjective

Sooty adj. (compar. sootier; superl. sootiest)

Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal."

Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron."

Sooty albatross (Zool.), an albatross (Phoebetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; called also nellie.

Sooty tern (Zool.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.

verb

Sooty v. t. To black or foul with soot. (R.) "Sootied with noisome smoke."

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Etymology of 'Sooty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sooty" Quotes from Famous Books

... superintendent's sooty face crept a look of blank amazement. "Shut down! why?" he floundered helplessly. "I can't, till this heat is through, and there's nothing the ...

— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... man ought to feel, when he sees laid before him the scene of his life's career—I said to myself, "William, you are a rebel against circumstances; you are a fool, and know not what you want; you have chosen trade and you shall be a tradesman. Look!" I continued mentally—"Look at the sooty smoke in that hollow, and know that there is your post! There you cannot dream, you cannot speculate and theorize—there you ...

— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell

... and sound reasoning; in which he was well supported by Mr. James Ferguson, remarkable for a manly understanding, and a knowledge both of books and of the world. But I cannot too highly praise the speech which Mr. Henry Dundas generously contributed to the cause of the sooty stranger. Mr. Dundas's Scottish accent[605], which has been so often in vain obtruded as an objection to his powerful abilities in parliament, was no disadvantage to him in his own country. And I do declare, that upon this memorable question ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... had spoken of the chimney and the well Deasey concluded at once it was a foully murdered corpse. But then, again, you could not well conceal a corpse in someone's waistcoat; and gold coins would melt or be mislaid amongst the loose bricks of a sooty chimney. Deasey had craved for corpses, but nothing so grim as that had risen to his whisky-bait until he tried the same old game on Mrs. Geraghty. What subtle instinct was it that had prompted him to add to the first unvarying ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

... within a red-hot torture-skin, a Nessus garment specially adapted to the use of discarded Brigadier-Generals. He sat on the straight-backed chair and looked round the nine foot square flyblown room, with its peeling paper and its strained, sooty skylight, which all the efforts of himself and the dresser had failed to open. It was Mademoiselle Chose, the latter at last remembered, an imperious lady with a horror of draughts and the ear (and—who knows?—perhaps the heart of the ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

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