sooty means of, relating to, or producing soot. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 70 out of 100.
sooty is pronounced /ˈsʊti/.
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”).
adj
- Of, relating to, or producing soot.“Fire of sooty coal.”
- Soiled with soot
- Of the color of soot.“The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.”
- Dark-skinned; black.“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, […]”
verb
- To blacken or make dirty with soot.“Sootied with noisome smoke.”