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Rooty vs Pooty - What's the difference?

rooty | pooty |

As adjectives the difference between rooty and pooty

is that rooty is full of roots while pooty is pretty.

As an adverb pooty is

pretty.

rooty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of roots.
    • rooty ground
    (Webster 1913)

    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.