different between sooty vs poot

English

Etymology

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 bes?tian (“to befoul”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Adjective

sooty (comparative sootier, superlative sootiest)

1. Of, relating to, or producing soot.
2. Soiled with soot
3. Of the color of soot.
4. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
   • 1834, William Gilmore Simms, Guy Rivers: A tale of Georgia

     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, […]

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, inky, sable, swarthy

Derived terms

• sooty albatross
• sooty tern

Translations

Verb

sooty (third-person singular simple present sooties, present participle sootying, simple past and past participle sootied)

1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• soti, soty, soyty, sotye

Etymology

From soot +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?ti?/

Adjective

sooty (rare)

1. Soiled with soot; sooty.

Descendants

• English: sooty
• Scots: suitie, sitty, sittie

References

• “s??t?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?t

Verb

poot (third-person singular simple present poots, present participle pooting, simple past and past participle pooted)

1. (childish, slang) To fart.

Noun

poot (plural poots)

1. (childish, slang) A fart, perhaps a relatively quiet one.

Usage notes

Much less vulgar than fart; accepted in some circles (speaking with children) where fart would not be.

Synonyms

• fart
• toot

Translations

Anagrams

• Toop, opto-, topo, topo-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch poot, from Middle Dutch pôte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???t/

Noun

poot (plural pote)

1. paw

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?t/
• Hyphenation: poot
• Rhymes: -o?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pôte (“limb, claw”), further etymology unclear. The only known Germanic cognate is Middle Low German pote. Outside Germanic, Old French pote and Catalan pota may be related.

Noun

poot m (plural poten, diminutive pootje n)

1. limb (arm or leg) of an animal (sometimes human)

2. (informal) leg or foot

3. (informal) hand

4. leg of an object, e.g. furniture

5. (derogatory) homosexual man, fag, poof (shortened form of ruigpoot)

Usage notes

Although using poot to denote limbs of humans in normally considered rude, there are some exceptions in case of idioms like Op zijn achterste poten staan. (“To get up on one's hind legs.”)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: poot

Etymology 2

Shortened from ruigpoot.

Noun

poot m (plural poten, diminutive pootje n)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) homosexual man

Derived terms

• broodpoot
• potenrammen
• potenrammer

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of poten
2. imperative of poten

Karao

Noun

poot

1. consciousness

Middle English

Noun

poot

1. Alternative form of pot

Tagalog

Noun

poót

1. wrath; intense anger; rage; indignation
2. hate; hatred

Synonyms

• (wrath): ngitngit, muhi, pagkamuhi
• (hate): suklam, pagksuklam

Tapachultec

Etymology

See po.

Noun

poot

1. moon

Usage notes

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is po.

References

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.