soot
Plural: soots
Noun
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Verb
Verb Forms: sooted, sooting, soots
- To cover or dirty something with soot, a black carbon powder.
- coat with soot
- To cover or dress with soot.
Examples
- His opponent’s desperate plays seemed to soot the entire board, obscuring clear paths.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
Scrabble Score: 4
soot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsoot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
soot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary