different between zloty vs zooty

English

Alternative forms

• z?oty

Etymology

From Polish z?oty.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zl?ti/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /zl?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

zloty (plural zloty or zlotys or zlote or zlotych or zloties)

1. z?oty, the currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.

Translations

Anagrams

• Zolty

Danish

Etymology

From Polish z?oty.

Noun

zloty c (singular definite zlotyen, plural indefinite zloty)

1. (numismatics) zloty

Inflection

References

• “zloty” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

zloty

1. zloty

Declension

French

Alternative forms

• z?oty

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zl?.ti/

Noun

zloty m (plural zlotys)

1. zloty

Further reading

• “zloty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

zloty m (definite singular zlotyen, indefinite plural zloty, definite plural zlotyane)

1. zloty

References

• “zloty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zl?.t?/

Noun

zloty m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of zlot

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• zloti

Noun

zloty m (plural zlotys)

1. zloty (the currency unit of Poland)

Spanish

Noun

zloty m (plural zlotys)

1. zloty

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t?/

Alternative forms

• z?oty

Noun

zloty c

1. zloty, currency of Poland

Declension

References

• zloty in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

zoot +? -y

Adjective

zooty (comparative more zooty, superlative most zooty)

1. (dated, informal) stylish, flashy, snappy.
   • 1949, Dwight Martin, “City of Defeat,” Time, 18 April, 1949,^[1]

     Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li’l Abner.

   • 1988 Martin A. Janis, The Joys of Aging, Dallas: Word Publishing, p. 122,^[2]

     A man of 75 may be feeling pretty frisky. Frisky enough that he starts chasing the girls of 25. He divorces his wife, buys a set of “zooty threads” as he calls them, and a zippy convertible, and has himself a big time in Las Vegas.

   • 1990, Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia, London: Faber & Faber, 1991, Part Two, Chapter Eighteen, p. 267,^[3]

     I could see he’d become pretty zooty, little Allie. His clothes were Italian and immaculate, daring and colourful without being vulgar, and all expensive and just right: the zips fitted, the seams were straight, and the socks were perfect—you can always tell a quality dresser by the socks.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13,^[4]

     From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.