Dooty vs Sooty - What's the difference?

As a noun dooty

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

of, relating to, or producing soot.

to blacken or make dirty with soot.

(head)

(dated)

* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Glad to see you back at the post of dooty . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=When we gets back to the old Laughing Lass , then we drops back into our dooty again all right and proper. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Horatio Alger, Jr., title=Jack's Ward, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It's your dooty to do just as she tells you, and you'll do right. }}

(er)

of, relating to, or producing soot

* Milton

Fire of sooty coal.

soiled with soot

of the color of soot

* Milton

The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.

* sooty albatross * sooty tern

To blacken or make dirty with soot.

* Chapman

Sootied with noisome smoke.