rooty

¹

[ roo-tee, root-ee ]

adjective

, root·i·er, root·i·est.

1. abounding in or consisting of roots. root.

rooty

²

or root·i

[ roo-tee, root-ee ]

noun

, Chiefly British: Rare.

1. bread; roti.

Other Words From

• rooti·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of rooty¹

First recorded in 1475–85; root ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of rooty²

First recorded in 1880–85; from Bengali ruṭī; akin to Hindi roṭī roti ( def )

Example Sentences

She enjoys these new pursuits, but it hits hard when her enjoyment flips like a switch and she’s had enough but we’re downhill of the car, or an MTB trail has been unexpectedly rooty.

From Outside Online

This shoe is best suited for short races or speedy training runs in any tricky terrain—rugged, rooty, rocky, or loose.

From Outside Online

The “rooty toot toot” is simply the noise the horns make, while “rummy tum tum” is the drums.

From The Daily Beast

Every little while along the rooty, hummocky banks of the creek I would pass a muskrat's slide.

From Project Gutenberg

The earth isnt rooty here, see, its nice and soft, she poked up a ditch in illustration.

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Even as the little party watched, the great shovel plunged down, straight down, burying its great teeth in the rooty ground.

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Struck it with a choppin'-tray for a bo't and a mess of rooty-baggy turnips for a crew!

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And now her senses began feebly to regather within truer limits and to tell her she was lying on the rooty ground of a thicket.

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