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sooties

sooties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sooty.

Meaning of sooty

Verb

sooty (third-person singular simple present sooties, present participle sootying, simple past and past participle sootied)

  1. To blacken or make dirty with soot.
    • Sootied with noisome smoke.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

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Questions about sooties

What is sooties the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sooties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sooty.

Words near sooties in the dictionary

  1. soothsayings
  2. soothsays
  3. soothy
  4. sootied
  5. sootier
  6. sooties
  7. sootiest
  8. sootily
  9. sootiness
  10. sootinesses
  11. sooting

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