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zooty

a. (context dated informal English) stylish, flashy, snappy.

Usage examples of "zooty".

From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.

Autocrat, half a block long, complete with zooty chauffeur and black bodyguard riding shotgun.

The chauffeur stood readya different chauffeur, but a fellow-member of the zooty, moustachioed, chauffeuring caste.

I have this zooty look, the boxy jacket and the python strides, the bright socks and the black suede shoes, the indeterminate, driven-back hair, the beady scaly face, the face of a fat snake, capable of sudden obedience, sudden revolt.