zooty

== English == === Etymology === From zoot +‎ -y. === Adjective === zooty (comparative more zooty, superlative most zooty) (dated, informal) Stylish, flashy, snappy. 1988 Martin A. Janis, The Joys of Aging, Dallas: Word Publishing, p. 122,[2] A man of 75 may be feeling pretty frisky. Frisky enough that he starts chasing the girls of 25. He divorces his wife, buys a set of “zooty threads” as he calls them, and a zippy convertible, and has himself a big time in Las Vegas. 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book One, “The Silver Spoon,” p. 13,[3] 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.