sootish
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
sootish (comparative more sootish, superlative most sootish)
- (obsolete or rare) sooty
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- things become blacke by a sootish and fuliginious matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified
References edit
- “sootish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.