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Zooty vs Sooty - What's the difference?

zooty | sooty |

As adjectives the difference between zooty and sooty

is that zooty is (dated|informal) stylish, flashy, snappy while sooty is of, relating to, or producing soot.

As a verb sooty is

to blacken or make dirty with soot.

zooty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated, informal) stylish, flashy, snappy.

    • 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.