Sooty vs Snooty - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between sooty and snooty

is that sooty is of, relating to, or producing soot while snooty is pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.

is to blacken or make dirty with soot.

(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.

(er)

pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose

Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty , bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.

Sissi was a very snooty and spoiled girl with clear social problems.

elite; exclusive

Her parties were snooty affairs; custom designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were ''de rigueur''.

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