pooty

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English

Etymology 1

Possibly a shortening of poontang.

Noun

pooty (countable and uncountable, plural pooties)

  1. (colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva
    • 2006 March 26, Chris Adrian, “A Better Angel”, in The New Yorker‎, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-14:
      Things started to go wrong between the angel and me after Cindy Hacklight showed me her pooty in seventh grade. Cindy had made a sort of cottage industry of showing her pooty to anyone—girl or boy—who would give her five dollars, a large sum back then, before high-school inflation.
    • 2003, Helen Reddy, “Long Hard Climb”, in John Morthland, editor, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 81:
      What everybody doesn't know is the hot pulsating goodies Helen Reddy's got to offer up. Cum here woman, do your duty; drop them drawers and gimme some pooty!

Etymology 2

Representing a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of pretty.[1] Compare purty. The adverb is derived from the adjective.[2]

Adjective

pooty (comparative pootier, superlative pootiest)

  2. (dialectal) Pretty.
    • 1857, The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty
      "Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...

Adverb

pooty (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Pretty (somewhat, fairly).

Etymology 3

Uncertain. Possibly from pooty (“pretty”), although that term is attested slightly later.[3]

Noun

pooty (plural pooties)

  1. (England, dialectal, Northamptonshire) Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.
    Synonym: grove snail
    • 1980, Gillian Nelson, Charity's Child, London: W. H. Allen, →ISBN, page 45:
      Do 'e remember that nest then? and the pooty shells I collected for you, and all our playings?
Usage notes
  • Chiefly used by or in reference to the writings of English poet John Clare (1793–1864).[3]

References

  1. ^ “pooty, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “pooty, adv.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “pooty, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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