What is the meaning of SOOTY. Phrases containing SOOTY
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Sooty is derogatory British slang for a Black person.
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Sooty and sweep is London Cockney rhyming slang for sleep.
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v. t.
To black or foul with soot.
a.
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
n.
A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.
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Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
v. t.
An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
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A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris.
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The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.
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Sooty.
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One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.
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Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
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Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black.
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The sooty albatross.
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