sootyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsʊti/, U.S.

/ˈsʊdi/

Forms: Middle English soti, soty, Middle English– sooty, 1500s–1700s sootie; Middle English soyty, sutty, 1500s swuttie.

Etymology: < soot adj. + -y suffix¹. Compare Old Norse and Icelandic sótigr, sótugr, Middle Swedish sotogher, Swedish sotig. It is difficult to regard the early south-western suti suty adj. as a mere variant of this.

a. Foul or dirty with soot; covered or smeared with soot; full of soot.

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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

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 578 Þu art dim, an of fule howe, An þinchest a lutel soti [v.r. soty] clowe.

c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 12 Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle.

a1400 Octavian 800 Clement broghte forthe schelde and spere,..Soyty [v.r. sutty] and alle vnclene.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 465/2 Soty, or fowlyd wythe soot, fuliginosus.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 325/1 Sooty, full of sowte as a chymnay is, suyeux.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 51 Hee..hung the residue..in the sooty roofe of his shad a drying.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. xxii. 143 They are still smokie and sootie, and in all their colour, shew they come from the fire.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxiv. 301 Till from above In Thunder Jove his sooty Bolt down threw.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 21 Here a Sooty Chimney-Sweeper takes the Wall of a Grave Alderman.

1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 60 His own sooty cap is full as good as your rusty bonnet.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 71 He found that faithful servitor in his sooty and ruinous den.

1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. viii. 82 When the wind puffs down a sooty chimney the air is filled with little blacks.

in extended use.1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol (1749) ii. 133 The furious God In sooty Triumph rides dreadful.1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 31 So Gareth..underwent The sooty yoke of kitchen vassalage.1878 A. J. C. Hare Walks in London I. iv. 128 St. Paul's Cathedral..has a peculiar sooty dignity all its own.

b. Of the soul: Foul with sin.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adjective] > very

sin-wooda1325

clumseda1340

obduratec1450

obdureda1500

unreclaimed1591

obfirmed1597

sooty1656

unreconciled1711

1656 T. Fuller Coll. Serm. 5 How could Davids soule in his youth be sooty with sinne?

1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 254 The sooty souls of those nobles..under their white garments.

c. Of grain: Affected by smut; blackened.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease

rustyc1503

smutty1597

smutched1620

slaina1642

smutty1667

sooty1697

rusted1763

spurred1763

smutted1766

leaf spot1846

fly-speck1855

ergotized1860

tagged1892

mummied1893

mummified1895

conky1905

rhynchosporium1918

Alternaria1924

Sigatoka1925

pasmo1926

sclerotinia1926

oak wilt1942

silver-leaf1946

wildfire1971

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 48 Unwholsom Dews..That blast the sooty Corn.

a. Resembling soot in colour; dusky or brownish black.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as soot

sooty1593

fuliginated1634

fuliginous1657

fuliginose1727

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 61 b The blacke swuttie visage of the night.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. v. sig. G Yee sootie coursers of the night.

1640 F. Quarles Sighes sig. A5 Do'st thou think To glorifie thy Skill In Sooty Characters of Inke?

1766 L. Sterne Let. 27 July in Lett. 1765–8 (2009) 505 From the fairest face about St James's, to the sootiest complexion in africa.

1776 Addison's Spect. No. 412. ⁋5 The black-bird hence selects her sooty spouse.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xviii. 10 Not like that sooty devil of Othello's.

1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 478 Sooty.., dirty brown, verging upon black.

1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iv. 164 Their sooty wings horizontally extended.

1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xvii. 105 The girl..fluttered her big sooty eyes.

1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto ii. 23 Black hair and a grey face and sooty bags under his eyes.

b. figurative or in figurative context. Black, dismal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

darkOE

unmerryOE

deathlyc1225

dolefulc1275

elengec1275

dreicha1300

coolc1350

cloudyc1374

sada1375

colda1400

deadlya1400

joylessc1400

unjoyful?c1400

disconsolatea1413

mournfula1425

funeralc1425

uncheerfulc1449

dolent1489

dolesome1533

heavy-hearted1555

glum1558

ungladsome1558

black1562

pleasureless1567

dern1570

plaintive?1570

glummish1573

cheerless1575

comfortless1576

wintry1579

glummy1580

funebral1581

discouraging1584

dernful?1591

murk1596

recomfortless1596

sullen1597

amating1600

lugubrious1601

dusky1602

sable1603

funebrial1604

damping1607

mortifying1611

tearful?1611

uncouth1611

dulsome1613

luctual1613

dismal1617

winterous1617

unked1620

mopish1621

godforsaken?1623

uncheerly1627

funebrious1630

lugubrous1632

drearisome1633

unheartsome1637

feral1641

drear1645

darksome1649

sadding1649

saddening1650

disheartening1654

funebrous1654

luctiferous1656

mestifical1656

tristifical1656

sooty1657

dreary1667

tenebrose1677

clouded1682

tragicala1700

funereal1707

gloomy1710

sepulchrala1711

dumpishc1717

bleaka1719

depressive1727

lugubre1727

muzzy1728

dispiriting1733

uncheery1760

unconsolatory1760

unjolly1764

Decemberly1765

sombre1768

uncouthie1768

depressing1772

unmirthful1782

sombrous1789

disanimating1791

Decemberish1793

grey1794

uncheering1796

ungenial1796

uncomforting1798

disencouraginga1806

stern1812

chilling1815

uncheered1817

dejecting1818

mopey1821

desponding1828

wisht1829

leadening1835

unsportful1837

demoralizing1840

Novemberish1840

frigid1844

morne1844

tragic1848

wet-blanketty1848

morgue1850

ungladdeneda1851

adusk1856

smileless1858

soul-sick1858

Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 118 I give the reader but a sooty relation of my Maladies.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida v. v. sig. N2^v Strook such a terror as if shadow'd by Death's sooty vail.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 78 Better for them to chide even without reason, then store up this sooty humor.

c. absol. as a moth-name.Also Old Sooty, the Devil. dialect.

ΚΠ

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 98 The Sooty (Acosmetia caliginosa) appears in June.

d. In the names of plant diseases, as sooty blotch, a fungal disease of apples, pears, and citruses which is caused by Glœodes pomigena and gives rise to darkish blotches on the skin of the fruit; sooty mould, any of several fungal diseases of trees and shrubs which cause a dark discoloration of their fruit.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees

heart rot1808

white rot1828

sap-rot1838

red rot1847

conk1851

soft rot1886

pine blister1889

silver-leaf1890

leaf shedding1891

pine rust1893

leaf cast1894

partridge-wood1894

larch blister1895

needle-cast1895

sooty mould1901

white pine blister rust1909

larch needle cast1921

coral-spot1923

ink disease1923

pocket rot1926

wood rot1926

Dutch elm disease1927

oak wilt1942

ash dieback1957

1901 H. M. Ward Dis. in Plants xxv. 232 [Honeydew] serves as nutritive material for various epiphytic fungi—e.g. sooty mould, Capnodium, Fumago, and Antennaria.

1902 Ann. Rep. Secretary Connecticut Board Agric. 1901 132 Among the diseases in this class which prey upon either the fruit or the foliage of the apple..are the bitter rot..and the sooty blotch.

1939 Ann. Bot. 3 401 The distinction between parasitic and saprophytic ‘sooty moulds’..appears to be valid.

1939 H. Wormald Dis. Fruits & Hops v. 103 Frequently associated with Sooty Blotch, but sometimes occurring alone, are groups of black, circular dots which from their size and appearance are known as Fly Specks.

1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. ii. 126/2 Sooty mould can be avoided by keeping the tree free from aphides.

1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. ii. 127/1 Associated with Leptothyrium pomi is usually the fungus of sooty blotch, Gloeodes pomigena.

1969 G. N. Agrios Plant Pathol. ii. 19 Certain fungi, e.g., those causing sooty molds, can cause disease by growing on the surface of the plant and feeding on insect excretions rather than by parasitizing the plant.

3. Of colours: Having a dark, dusky, blackish, or dirty tinge.

ΚΠ

(a)

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. vii. 16 Be shee all sootie-black, or bery-browne, Shee's white as morrows milk.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 170 Of every hue, from wan, declining green To sooty dark.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 296 Gills sooty grey, that is, powdered with black.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 112 Fur sooty brown above, grayish below.

1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 54 Sooty-red was also the colour of Typhon.

1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 406 The cups are seated on a sooty-black space.

(b)1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 127 The things which it [sc. lightning] striketh do use to look black, or of a sootie colour.1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 39 All the white flowers are sullied with a sooty blackness. 1785 [see sooty owl n. at Compounds 1]. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 216 [Johnson:] By the heat of the sun the skin is scorched, and so acquires a sooty hue.1884 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 531/1 The plumage [of the noddy] is of a uniform sooty hue.

4. Consisting of soot; of the nature of soot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [adjective] > consisting or of the nature of soot

sooty1659

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of soot

fuliginous1606

sooty1659

1659 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 77 Grosse and sooty Exhalations, such as arise from Ardours of the Body.

1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse v. ii. 199 To be vents of the Brain, through which the impure and sooty excrements might exhale or evaporate.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 292 The sooty films that play upon the bars, Pendulous.

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 211 A quantity of black sooty stuff being thrown up by the spade or the plough.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 179 The barrels must be passed..through that flame..until the whole are covered with a black sooty covering.

1902 J. E. Hutton in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 140 The interior of the tube becoming blackened by sooty deposit.

Compounds

C1. In the names of birds, etc.

sooty albatross n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > family Diomedeidae (albatross) > diomedea fusca (sooty albatross)

Quaker1776

sooty albatross1777

stinkard1850

stink-pot1865

stinker1896

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 91 We likewise saw the two before mentioned species of albatrosses.., together with a third,..which we named the sooty.

1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 573 Sooty Albatros. Diomedea Fuliginosa.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 326 Sooty Albatross. Fuliginous brown, nearly uniform.

sooty grouse n.

ΚΠ

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 580 Canace obscura fuliginosa, Sooty Grouse.

sooty guillemot n.

ΚΠ

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 345 Sooty Guillemot.

sooty mangabey n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Cercocebus (mangabey)

mangabey1774

sooty mangabey1879

1879 W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Animals II. 83 A sooty mangabey (monkey) had acquired a good number of bad habits.

sooty owl n.

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1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 232 Sooty Owl... Cinereous Owl.

sooty petrel n.

ΚΠ

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 409 Sooty Petrel..inhabits Otaheite.

1802 G. Barrington Hist. New S. Wales viii. 270 The sooty petrel had appropriated a certain grassy part of the island to herself.

1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 21 Feb. 5/3 These birds were sooty petrels.

sooty shearwater n.

ΚΠ

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 331 Sooty Shearwater. Dark sooty brown.

sooty tern n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna fuscata (sooty tern)

sooty tern1785

wide awake1831

1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 523 Sooty Tern..crown, hind part of the head and neck, back, and wings, of a sooty blackness.

1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 281 The Sooty Tern (Sterna fuliginosa) inhabits the bays and gulfs of the Mediterranean.

sooty thrush n.

ΚΠ

1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 185 Sooty Thrush... The general colour of the plumage is dark greenish brown.

sooty warbler n.

ΚΠ

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 451 Sooty Warbler, Motacilla fulicata.

sooty water mouse n.

ΚΠ

c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 114 The Sooty Water Mouse (Hydromys fuliginosus) is an inhabitant of Western Australia.

C2. sooty-eyed, sooty-faced, sooty-like, sooty-mossed, sooty-mouthed, sooty-plumed adjs.

ΚΠ

1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 31 One of those Sooty-fac'd Harlots.

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 28 A soft, sooty-like substance.

1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 58 The sooty-plum'd hedge-sparrow.

1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 512 Let not our readers imagine that this sooty-mouthed Libeller is poor and ignorant.

1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 247 Sooty-mossed boulders in foreground.

1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xvii. 106 The sooty-eyed girl laughed.

Derivatives

ˈsootied adj. made sooty, blackened.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with soot

sootied?1615

fuliginose1727

fuliginous1843

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiii. 635 Shirt and coat, all rent Tann'd, and all sootied with noisome smoke.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sooty
释义	sootyn. Brit. /ˈsʊti/, U.S. /ˈsʊdi/ Etymology: < sooty adj. slang (originally U.S.). An offensive name for a black person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1838 Hesperian Dec. 117/1 The night was enlivened by the music of a cracked fiddle, in the hands of a negro lad, while two or three small sooties kicked up a dust about them. 1986 Sunday Express Mag. 28 Dec. 18/4 I am not racialist, but I can't bear to watch the sooties any more—it's like Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1986 G. F. Newman Set Thief iv. 48 Pick your fucking feet up, sooty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sootyadj. Brit. /ˈsʊti/, U.S. /ˈsʊdi/ Forms: Middle English soti, soty, Middle English– sooty, 1500s–1700s sootie; Middle English soyty, sutty, 1500s swuttie. Etymology: < soot adj. + -y suffix¹. Compare Old Norse and Icelandic sótigr, sótugr, Middle Swedish sotogher, Swedish sotig. It is difficult to regard the early south-western suti suty adj. as a mere variant of this. 1. a. Foul or dirty with soot; covered or smeared with soot; full of soot. ΘΚΠ 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 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 578 Þu art dim, an of fule howe, An þinchest a lutel soti [v.r. soty] clowe. c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 12 Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle. a1400 Octavian 800 Clement broghte forthe schelde and spere,..Soyty [v.r. sutty] and alle vnclene. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 465/2 Soty, or fowlyd wythe soot, fuliginosus. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 325/1 Sooty, full of sowte as a chymnay is, suyeux. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 51 Hee..hung the residue..in the sooty roofe of his shad a drying. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. xxii. 143 They are still smokie and sootie, and in all their colour, shew they come from the fire. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xxiv. 301 Till from above In Thunder Jove his sooty Bolt down threw. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 21 Here a Sooty Chimney-Sweeper takes the Wall of a Grave Alderman. 1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 60 His own sooty cap is full as good as your rusty bonnet. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 71 He found that faithful servitor in his sooty and ruinous den. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. viii. 82 When the wind puffs down a sooty chimney the air is filled with little blacks. in extended use.1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol (1749) ii. 133 The furious God In sooty Triumph rides dreadful.1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 31 So Gareth..underwent The sooty yoke of kitchen vassalage.1878 A. J. C. Hare Walks in London I. iv. 128 St. Paul's Cathedral..has a peculiar sooty dignity all its own. b. Of the soul: Foul with sin. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > [adjective] > very sin-wooda1325 clumseda1340 obduratec1450 obdureda1500 unreclaimed1591 obfirmed1597 sooty1656 unreconciled1711 1656 T. Fuller Coll. Serm. 5 How could Davids soule in his youth be sooty with sinne? 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 254 The sooty souls of those nobles..under their white garments. c. Of grain: Affected by smut; blackened. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease rustyc1503 smutty1597 smutched1620 slaina1642 smutty1667 sooty1697 rusted1763 spurred1763 smutted1766 leaf spot1846 fly-speck1855 ergotized1860 tagged1892 mummied1893 mummified1895 conky1905 rhynchosporium1918 Alternaria1924 Sigatoka1925 pasmo1926 sclerotinia1926 oak wilt1942 silver-leaf1946 wildfire1971 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 48 Unwholsom Dews..That blast the sooty Corn. 2. a. Resembling soot in colour; dusky or brownish black. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as soot sooty1593 fuliginated1634 fuliginous1657 fuliginose1727 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 61 b The blacke swuttie visage of the night. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. v. sig. G Yee sootie coursers of the night. 1640 F. Quarles Sighes sig. A5 Do'st thou think To glorifie thy Skill In Sooty Characters of Inke? 1766 L. Sterne Let. 27 July in Lett. 1765–8 (2009) 505 From the fairest face about St James's, to the sootiest complexion in africa. 1776 Addison's Spect. No. 412. ⁋5 The black-bird hence selects her sooty spouse. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xviii. 10 Not like that sooty devil of Othello's. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 478 Sooty.., dirty brown, verging upon black. 1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iv. 164 Their sooty wings horizontally extended. 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xvii. 105 The girl..fluttered her big sooty eyes. 1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto ii. 23 Black hair and a grey face and sooty bags under his eyes. b. figurative or in figurative context. Black, dismal. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 118 I give the reader but a sooty relation of my Maladies. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida v. v. sig. N2^v Strook such a terror as if shadow'd by Death's sooty vail. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 78 Better for them to chide even without reason, then store up this sooty humor. c. absol. as a moth-name.Also Old Sooty, the Devil. dialect. ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 98 The Sooty (Acosmetia caliginosa) appears in June. d. In the names of plant diseases, as sooty blotch, a fungal disease of apples, pears, and citruses which is caused by Glœodes pomigena and gives rise to darkish blotches on the skin of the fruit; sooty mould, any of several fungal diseases of trees and shrubs which cause a dark discoloration of their fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees heart rot1808 white rot1828 sap-rot1838 red rot1847 conk1851 soft rot1886 pine blister1889 silver-leaf1890 leaf shedding1891 pine rust1893 leaf cast1894 partridge-wood1894 larch blister1895 needle-cast1895 sooty mould1901 white pine blister rust1909 larch needle cast1921 coral-spot1923 ink disease1923 pocket rot1926 wood rot1926 Dutch elm disease1927 oak wilt1942 ash dieback1957 1901 H. M. Ward Dis. in Plants xxv. 232 [Honeydew] serves as nutritive material for various epiphytic fungi—e.g. sooty mould, Capnodium, Fumago, and Antennaria. 1902 Ann. Rep. Secretary Connecticut Board Agric. 1901 132 Among the diseases in this class which prey upon either the fruit or the foliage of the apple..are the bitter rot..and the sooty blotch. 1939 Ann. Bot. 3 401 The distinction between parasitic and saprophytic ‘sooty moulds’..appears to be valid. 1939 H. Wormald Dis. Fruits & Hops v. 103 Frequently associated with Sooty Blotch, but sometimes occurring alone, are groups of black, circular dots which from their size and appearance are known as Fly Specks. 1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. ii. 126/2 Sooty mould can be avoided by keeping the tree free from aphides. 1952 E. Ramsden tr. E. Gram & H. Weber Plant Dis. ii. 127/1 Associated with Leptothyrium pomi is usually the fungus of sooty blotch, Gloeodes pomigena. 1969 G. N. Agrios Plant Pathol. ii. 19 Certain fungi, e.g., those causing sooty molds, can cause disease by growing on the surface of the plant and feeding on insect excretions rather than by parasitizing the plant. 3. Of colours: Having a dark, dusky, blackish, or dirty tinge. ΚΠ (a) 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. vii. 16 Be shee all sootie-black, or bery-browne, Shee's white as morrows milk. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 170 Of every hue, from wan, declining green To sooty dark. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 296 Gills sooty grey, that is, powdered with black. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 112 Fur sooty brown above, grayish below. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 54 Sooty-red was also the colour of Typhon. 1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 406 The cups are seated on a sooty-black space. (b)1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 127 The things which it [sc. lightning] striketh do use to look black, or of a sootie colour.1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 39 All the white flowers are sullied with a sooty blackness. 1785 [see sooty owl n. at Compounds 1]. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1763 I. 216 [Johnson:] By the heat of the sun the skin is scorched, and so acquires a sooty hue.1884 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 531/1 The plumage [of the noddy] is of a uniform sooty hue. 4. Consisting of soot; of the nature of soot. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [adjective] > consisting or of the nature of soot sooty1659 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of soot fuliginous1606 sooty1659 1659 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 77 Grosse and sooty Exhalations, such as arise from Ardours of the Body. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse v. ii. 199 To be vents of the Brain, through which the impure and sooty excrements might exhale or evaporate. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 292 The sooty films that play upon the bars, Pendulous. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 211 A quantity of black sooty stuff being thrown up by the spade or the plough. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 179 The barrels must be passed..through that flame..until the whole are covered with a black sooty covering. 1902 J. E. Hutton in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 140 The interior of the tube becoming blackened by sooty deposit. Compounds C1. In the names of birds, etc. sooty albatross n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > family Diomedeidae (albatross) > diomedea fusca (sooty albatross) Quaker1776 sooty albatross1777 stinkard1850 stink-pot1865 stinker1896 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 91 We likewise saw the two before mentioned species of albatrosses.., together with a third,..which we named the sooty. 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VIII. 573 Sooty Albatros. Diomedea Fuliginosa. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 326 Sooty Albatross. Fuliginous brown, nearly uniform. sooty grouse n. ΚΠ 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 580 Canace obscura fuliginosa, Sooty Grouse. sooty guillemot n. ΚΠ 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 345 Sooty Guillemot. sooty mangabey n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Cercocebus (mangabey) mangabey1774 sooty mangabey1879 1879 W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Animals II. 83 A sooty mangabey (monkey) had acquired a good number of bad habits. sooty owl n. ΚΠ 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 232 Sooty Owl... Cinereous Owl. sooty petrel n. ΚΠ 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 409 Sooty Petrel..inhabits Otaheite. 1802 G. Barrington Hist. New S. Wales viii. 270 The sooty petrel had appropriated a certain grassy part of the island to herself. 1891 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 21 Feb. 5/3 These birds were sooty petrels. sooty shearwater n. ΚΠ 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 331 Sooty Shearwater. Dark sooty brown. sooty tern n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Sterna (tern) > sterna fuscata (sooty tern) sooty tern1785 wide awake1831 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 523 Sooty Tern..crown, hind part of the head and neck, back, and wings, of a sooty blackness. 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 281 The Sooty Tern (Sterna fuliginosa) inhabits the bays and gulfs of the Mediterranean. sooty thrush n. ΚΠ 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 185 Sooty Thrush... The general colour of the plumage is dark greenish brown. sooty warbler n. ΚΠ 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 451 Sooty Warbler, Motacilla fulicata. sooty water mouse n. ΚΠ c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 114 The Sooty Water Mouse (Hydromys fuliginosus) is an inhabitant of Western Australia. C2. sooty-eyed, sooty-faced, sooty-like, sooty-mossed, sooty-mouthed, sooty-plumed adjs. ΚΠ 1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 31 One of those Sooty-fac'd Harlots. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 28 A soft, sooty-like substance. 1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 58 The sooty-plum'd hedge-sparrow. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 512 Let not our readers imagine that this sooty-mouthed Libeller is poor and ignorant. 1874 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 247 Sooty-mossed boulders in foreground. 1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xvii. 106 The sooty-eyed girl laughed. Derivatives ˈsootied adj. made sooty, blackened. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with soot sootied?1615 fuliginose1727 fuliginous1843 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiii. 635 Shirt and coat, all rent Tann'd, and all sootied with noisome smoke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838adj.a1250
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