sootish

S1O1O1T1I1S1H4

adjective

sooty

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Meanings

adjectivesootish (comparative more sootish, superlative most sootish)

comparative more sootish · superlative most sootish

  1. obsoleteraresooty

    things become blacke by a sootish and fuliginious matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From soot + -ish.

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Chicago

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