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a black-stained nickname for anyone who lost a fight with a chimney
means Covered, blackened, or dirtied with soot — or simply having the dark, smoky color of it.
from From 'soot,' the fine black powder left when fire doesn't quite finish its meal — a word of solid Old English stock (sot), with cousins across the old Germanic tongues. The '-y' is the everyday English suffix that turns a thing into the quality of being covered in that thing, the same move that gives us 'muddy' and 'dusty.' So 'sooty' is, quite literally, soot-ish.
- famous puppet
- British glove bear sooty debuted on TV in 1955
- silent star
- sooty never spoke, whispering only into his handler's ear
- bird name
- sooty terns can fly years without ever landing
- word origin
- from soot, the carbon residue of incomplete burning
- oldest puppet
- sooty holds longest-running children's TV record
sooty the puppet — british children's tv character created in 1948, a glove puppet bear who never speaks but squeaks
sooty shearwater — seabird species that migrates 44,000 miles annually between new zealand and arctic