swarty

From swart +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɔː(ɹ)ti/

swarty (comparative more swarty, superlative most swarty)

1. swarthy; tawny
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     From these first qualities arise many other second, as that of colour, black, swarty, pale, ruddy , &c.

   • 2002, Corneliu Leu, The Islands:

     Suddenly, the short, swarty man was again before us with his broad smile, so ill suited to the grim glint of his eyes, beckoning to us to gather round him.

   • 2016, Melanie Schwapp, Dew Angels:

     “This chile getting swartier every day,” he would complain to Mama, or he would cock his head towards the kitchen door and say, “Remember what happen to Mrs. Spence? That's exactly where you headin'!”

• “swarty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• sawtry, strawy, wastry