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Pooty vs Sooty - What's the difference?

pooty | sooty |

As adjectives the difference between pooty and sooty

is that pooty is pretty while sooty is of, relating to, or producing soot.

As an adverb pooty

is pretty.

As a verb sooty is

to blacken or make dirty with soot.

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.

    • sooty

    English

    Adjective

    (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.

    Derived terms

    * sooty albatross * sooty tern

    Verb

  • To blacken or make dirty with soot.
  • * Chapman
    • Sootied with noisome smoke.