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单词 pooty
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pootyn.

Brit. /ˈpʊti/, /ˈpuːti/, U.S. /ˈpʊdi/, /ˈpudi/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pooty adj.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < pooty adj. (although this is first attested slightly later).Chiefly in the writings of John Clare and in echoes of and references to them.
English regional (Northamptonshire).
The banded or grove snail, Cepaea nemoralis; (also pooty shell) the shell of this.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > genus Helix > helix nemoralis or shell of
pooty1821
wood-snail1831
grove-snail1861
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 10 Searching the pooty from the rushy dyke.
1825 J. Clare Let. 7 Feb. in J. W. Tibble & A. Tibble Prose of John Clare (1951) 183 I have been seriously and busily employed this last 3 weeks hunting Pooty shells.
1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland viii. 103 I'll never grant a more than passing beauty To pudge or pilewort, petty-chap or pooty.
1973 Country Life 5 Apr. 903/1 There are also a few pooties, John Clare's name for grove snails (Cepaea nemoralis) that are both banded and black.
1980 G. Nelson Charity's Child iii. 45 Do 'e remember..the pooty shells I collected?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pootyadj.

Brit. /ˈpuːti/, U.S. /ˈpudi/
Forms:

α. 1800s– pooty; also U.S. regional 1800s pootty.

β. U.S. regional 1800s putta, 1800s puttee, 1800s– putty, 1900s– puddy; English regional 1800s– putty; also Manx English 1800s– putty.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pretty adj.
Etymology: Representing a colloquial, regional, or nonstandard pronunciation of pretty adj. (compare δ. forms at that entry). Compare purty adj. Surv. Eng. Dial. records similar pronunciations from Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire.
colloquial, regional, and nursery.
= pretty adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > pretty
gentc1275
pretty1440
jant1638
dimber1665
belle1668
genty1701
prettyish1741
maidenish-looking1789
darling1805
pooty1825
pitty1826
purty1829
mooi1850
dotey1852
cute1868
1825 J. W. Carlyle Let. 13 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J.W. Carlyle (1970) III. 302 She told me she was merely trying to turn up her eyes, as I did mine, it looked so very pooty!
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 8 The wannut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her!
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 147 She's a little money too..a pooty little bit of money.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. ii. iii. 149 ‘You'll have room here’, he said, ‘for six or seven hundred dozen—a very pooty little cellar!’
1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 104 That piss-proud prophet, that pooty redeemer.
2000 City Jrnl. (Nexis) Autumn 99 ‘You must be real rich,’ said the youth. ‘I bet it cost you a pooty penny.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pootyadv.

Brit. /ˈpuːti/, U.S. /ˈpudi/
Forms: see pooty adj.; also (U.S. regional, chiefly before n) 1900s– pet, 1900s– poot', 1900s– put.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pooty adj.
Etymology: < pooty adj. Compare purty adv.
colloquial, regional, and nursery.
= pretty adv.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > to a considerable degree
welleOE
not a little1485
prettily1533
sensibly1563
pretty1565
considerably1673
considerablea1706
significantly1747
respectably1770
purty1797
appreciably1815
pooty1825
right smart1859
helder1883
sumfin1918
sumptin1924
sumthin1925
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 5 A military personage, of ‘pooty considerable’ authority, in the province of Connecticut.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. 178 I starts off puttee considerable peert and brisk, considerin I was weak.
1905 B. Tarkington Conquest of Canaan i. 23 He blays dominoes pooty often in der room back off Louie Farbach's tsaloon.
2003 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 28 Sept. (Books section) 1 My fren, my fren, lissen pooty good to my estory!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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