Meanings
pooty1
plural pooties
- colloquialcountableuncountableThe female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
What everybody doesn't know is the hot pulsating goodies Helen Reddy's got to offer up. Cum here woman, do your duty; drop them drawers and gimme some pooty!
2003, Helen Reddy, “Long Hard Climb”, in John Morthland, editor, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 811 more example
Things started to go wrong between the angel and me after Cindy Hacklight showed me her pooty in seventh grade. Cindy had made a sort of cottage industry of showing her pooty to anyone—girl or boy—who would give her five dollars, a large sum back then, before high-school inflation.
2006 March 26, Chris Adrian, “A Better Angel”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2023Synonyms: axe wound, badly packed kebab, bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam
pooty2
comparative pootier · superlative pootiest
- dialectalPretty.
1857, The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty "Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...
- dialectalnot comparablePretty (somewhat, fairly).
"Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC
pooty3
plural pooties
- EnglandNorthamptonshiredialectalCepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
Do 'e remember that nest then? and the pooty shells I collected for you, and all our playings?
1980, Gillian Nelson, Charity's Child, London: W. H. Allen, →ISBN, page 45Synonyms: grove snail
Pooty4
- derogatoryslangVladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Synonyms: Pootin, Pooty-Poot
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
nounCepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
proper nounVladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Origin
pooty · adjective, adverb
Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Full word history & related roots →pooty · noun
Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
pooty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pooty
“pooty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pooty. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pooty,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pooty.
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