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▪ I. pooty, a. (n.)|ˈpuːtɪ|
Affected or childish var. pretty a. (n.)
1825[see cross lots advb. phr.]. 1848J. R. Lowell The Courtin' in Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 10 The wannut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her! 1849C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 105 Purchase in his stead some sweetly pooty pug or poodle. 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 147 She's a little money too..a pooty little bit of money. a1854[see country jake s.v. country 16]. 1906Galsworthy Man of Property ii. iii. 149 ‘You'll have room here,’ he said, ‘for six or seven hundred dozen—a very pooty little cellar!’ 1932Auden Orators iii. 104 That piss-proud prophet, that pooty redeemer. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1229/1 Pooty is a favourite mid-Victorian adjective meaning ‘pretty’—of which, via purty, it is a perversion. 1980G. Nelson Charity's Child iii. 45 Do 'e remember..the pooty shells I collected?
▪ II. pooty, n.1 dial.|ˈpuːtɪ|
[orig. unknown: first recorded in the writings of the poet John Clare, the son of a Northamptonshire labourer.]
(The shell of) the grove snail, Cepaea nemoralis. Freq. attrib., as pooty shell.
1821J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 10 Searching the pooty from the rushy dyke. Ibid. II. 16 The painted pooty-shell. 1825― Let. 7 Feb. in J. W. & A. Tibble Prose of John Clare (1951) 183, I have been seriously and busily employed this last 3 weeks hunting Pooty shells. 1937[see padge n.]. 1973Country Life 5 Apr. 903/1 There are also a few pooties, John Clare's name for grove snails (Cepaea nemoralis) that are both banded and black. 1980G. Nelson Charity's Child iii. 45 Do 'e remember..the pooty shells I collected? |