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sootballs

sootballs is the plural of sootball.

Meaning of sootball

Noun

sootball (plural sootballs)

  1. A ball of soot or ash.
    • If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany

Questions about sootballs

What is sootballs the plural of?
Sootballs is the plural of sootball.

Words near sootballs in the dictionary

  1. soot-oh
  2. soot-proof
  3. sootbag
  4. sootbags
  5. sootball
  6. sootballs
  7. sooted
  8. sooten
  9. sootened
  10. sootening
  11. sootens

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