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Cooty vs Pooty - What's the difference?

cooty | pooty |

As adjectives the difference between cooty and pooty

is that cooty is (slang) afflicted with body lice or coots while pooty is (dialectal) pretty.

As a noun cooty

is .

As an adverb pooty is

(dialectal) pretty.

cooty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (slang) Afflicted with body lice or coots.

    • Noun

    (cooties)

    • pooty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) pretty
  • * 1857 , The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty
  • *:"Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dialectal) pretty
  • * 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Chapter VIII
  • *:"Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.