sootedadj.
Manured, begrimed, covered, etc., with soot.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized
dungedOE
marledc1265
mucked1290
chavedc1420
dungyc1450
manured1551
fatted1552
folded1579
chalked1598
battled1600
seasoned1604
limed1707
sanded1707
fattened1725
sooted1776
wared1795
littery1805
plastered1819
nitred1822
gypsumed1841
nitrated1841
sewaged1861
sewage-irrigated1867
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty or soiled with soot or coal-dust
sootya1250
culmya1300
bletchy1520
sootish1582
coaly1589
collowed1606
fuliginous1606
colly1619
coomy1823
sooted1892
1530 [see sootedness n. at Derivatives].
1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 16 Aug. (1778) The dunged [wheat] looked best in winter; the sooted never shewed itself.
1892 Athenæum 4 June 739/3 We have no dishonouring business of a sooted leg of mutton—none of those pantomimic tricks.
Derivatives
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 273/1 Sotydnesse, suyerie.
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