sootball

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From soot +‎ ball.

Noun

sootball (plural sootballs)

  1. A ball of soot or ash.
    • 1870, The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany:
      If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.
    • 1964, The Studio - Volumes 167-168, page 39:
      The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.
    • 1994, I︠A︡.-M. K. Punning, The Influence of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Development of Landscapes, page 21:
      In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.
    • 2005, Jerry Spinelli, The Library Card, →ISBN, page 87:
      Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.
    • 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Dark Pasture: Book Three, →ISBN:
      Moving nearer to the French-tiled grate, Edith saw that the fire had burned quite low, and that a fragment of soot, round as a ball, adhered to the lip of the grate. She recalled the old superstition that a sootball forecast a visitor.
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