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pooty

pooty noun: the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.

Noun (1)

pooty (countable and uncountable, plural pooties)

  1. (colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
    • 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 2023
    • 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 81

Adjective

pooty (comparative pootier, superlative pootiest)

  1. (dialectal) Pretty.
    • "Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...1857, The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty

Adverb

pooty (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Pretty (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

Noun (2)

pooty (plural pooties)

  1. (England, Northamptonshire, dialectal) Cepaea 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 45
    Synonyms:
    grove snail

Proper noun capitalized: Pooty

Pooty

  1. (derogatory, slang) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
    Synonyms:
    Pootin, Pooty-Poot

Synonyms of pooty

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Forms of pooty

Noun
pluralpooties
Adjective
comparativepootier
superlativepootiest

Origin of pooty

Possibly a shortening of poontang.

Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty. Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.

Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.

Questions about pooty

What does pooty mean?
Pooty means the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
What part of speech is pooty?
Pooty can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pooty?
The plural of pooty is pooties.

Words near pooty in the dictionary

  1. pootling
  2. pootling along
  3. Pootoo
  4. poots
  5. Pootung
  6. pooty
  7. Pooty-Poot
  8. poove
  9. poovery
  10. pooves
  11. Poovey

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