Home › Words › S › sootbagsootbagsootbag · noun — A bag of soot.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sootbag ranks #35,326 of 43,042 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom soot + bag.nounA bag of soot.e.g.“One portion of the public had flown to arms because Mr. Crawshay had jocularly talked of sending a sweep and a sootbag in the third-class train to keep respectable people out.” — 1851, A History of the English Railway, John Francis, page 103:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).