What's the difference between booty and rooty?

Booty


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The woman across the street from me bought an entire Burberry outfit for her dog, from coat to booties to hat.
  • (2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (3) The pay-per-view take-up is also expected to delight the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and the TV cheque-signers, Showtime, when they sit down to count the booty.
  • (4) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
  • (5) But what if “booty” were a metaphor for the free ownership of handguns?
  • (6) Whatever it takes – hints of preferment or threats – they may lose their booty.
  • (7) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.
  • (8) Business owners who spoke on condition of anonymity accused officers of treating the city as booty.
  • (9) I designed most of the dress, the booties and the hat.
  • (10) It seems only right that some of the trust fund to be established from Habré’s stolen booty, together with other contributions, should be spent on providing survivors with the clinical and mental health services provided by Freedom from Torture, to help heal their wounds.
  • (11) Instead, she found Kat waiting at the prison gates, Roxy shacked up with Alfie, and Booty's replaced with Beauty's.
  • (12) It seems that Senicianus only got as far as Silchester before he lost his booty.
  • (13) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
  • (14) The company, which is known for its trademark trenchcoats but also sells £14,000 alligator bowling bags and £95 babies’ booties, warned that sales growth is slowing in Asia with are “pockets of weakness in Europe”.
  • (15) The suspicion is that at least some of Morgan's booty winds up 280 miles south-west of Epulu, in the hands of the Congolese army.
  • (16) This autumn is full of booty songs – yours, Nikki Minaj’s Anaconda and Jennifer Lopez’s Booty.
  • (17) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
  • (18) Jonathan Jones has rightly argued that British museums must “face up to reality” and that “cultural imperialism” belongs in history’s dustbin, but clearly his passionate plea fell on deaf ears ( The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back , 4 November).
  • (19) Win it and this Arsenal team will at last graduate from pretenders to victors, cast off the reputation as bottlers and seem well primed to use their post-Emirates-building booty money to add judicious reinforcements and embark on a new period of glory for the Gunners and ultimate vindication for Wenger.
  • (20) Your job is to loot galactic booty (so to speak) in your spaceship, crafting weapons and upgrades to keep your fleet in shape, and plotting your space-battle strategy.

Rooty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of roots; as, rooty ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Coalition said they also wanted to have a debate in Rooty Hill on 28 August.
  • (2) The Liberals’ campaign director, Brian Loughnane, wrote to his Labor counterpart, George Wright, proposing three debates: one next Sunday afternoon or evening at the National Press Club, where journalists would ask the questions; one at the Rooty Hill RSL in western Sydney, where each leader would make a statement and then separately answer questions from the audience, and a third in Brisbane where the two leaders would share a stage and take questions from the audience.
  • (3) The Coalition have said they also want to have a debate in Rooty Hill on 28 August.
  • (4) Afterwards, around the kitchen table, we use fluffy rotis (pronounced “rootis”) to mop up our lamb and coconut stew.
  • (5) Mr Abbott has accepted the proposal for a forum in Brisbane on 21st August and a further forum at Rooty Hill on 28 August.
  • (6) At the first leaders’ debate in Rooty Hill, western Sydney, Turnbull had worn a bemused expression when voters asked questions that weren’t entirely logical.
  • (7) Now Tony Abbott has agreed to a second forum hosted by Sky News next week In Brisbane, and another one in Rooty Hill on August 28.

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