sooty

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.
    — Sootied with noisome smoke.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
    — Fire of sooty coal.
  2. Soiled with soot
  3. Of the color of soot.
    — The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.
    Comus
  4. Dark-skinned; black. literary,obsolete
    — While thus reduced, his few surviving senses were at once called into acute activity by the appearance of a sooty little negro, who placed within his grasp a misshapen fold of dirty paper, […]

词形变化

sootier comparative sootiest superlative sooties present,singular,third-person sootying participle,present sootied participle,past sootied past

词汇关系

衍生词
Albertine sooty boubou mountain sooty boubou sootily sootiness sooty albatross sooty bark disease sooty blotch and flyspeck sooty grouse sooty grunter sooty-headed bulbul sooty-headed wren sooty kangaroo sooty orange tip sooty oystercatcher sooty stripe sooty tern

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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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