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adjective of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
adjective covered with or as if with soot
originFrom Middle English sooty, soty, equivalent to soot + -y. Probably influenced by similar Middle English suti (“dirty, filthy”), derived from the same root as Old English besūtian (“to befoul”).
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