different between sooty vs sooky

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

Alternative forms

• sookey
• sukey

Etymology

sook +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

sooky (comparative sookier or more sooky, superlative sookiest or most sooky)

1. (Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand, slang) Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
   • 2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods, page 189,

     Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.

2. (Australia, Newfoundland, New Zealand, slang) Sentimental, sissy; timid.
   • 1978, J. Ferguson, Seven Cities of Australia, page 48,

     Sentimentalists and political quacks have devoted much time to convincing the sookier twentieth century that nineteenth century New World penitentiaries were choked with near-blameless stealers of one teaspoon, one handkerchief, one loaf of bread.

   • 1999, Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home, page 138,

     Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms.

   • 2009, Evan McHugh. Birdsville, 2011, ReadHowYouWant, page 139,

     Our trepidation at being savaged by a vicious pig dog was soon allayed, however. He turned out to be the sookiest dog on earth. All he wanted in life was a pet or a cuddle, preferably both.

Noun

sooky (plural sookies)

1. A sook, a crybaby.