Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Of, relating to, or producing soot. · Soiled with soot · Of the color of soot. · Dark-skinned; black.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo blacken or make dirty with soot.
From Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot + -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English besūtian (“to befoul”).
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