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Sooty vs Shooty - What's the difference?

sooty | shooty |

As adjectives the difference between sooty and shooty

is that sooty is of, relating to, or producing soot while shooty is involving the shooting of weapons.

As a verb sooty

is to blacken or make dirty with soot.

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.

    shooty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Involving the shooting of weapons.
  • * 2007 , The Official Xbox Magazine: Issues 75-78
    • the swingy, shooty theatrics of Bionic Commando
  • (UK, dialect) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
    • (Grose)
    (Webster 1913)