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Definition of Smut

1. Verb. Make obscene. "This line in the play smuts the entire act"

2. Noun. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.

3. Verb. Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.

4. Noun. Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.

5. Verb. Become affected with smut. "The corn smutted and could not be eaten"

6. Noun. Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.

7. Verb. Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.

8. Noun. An offensive or indecent word or phrase.

9. Noun. Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire.

Definition of Smut

1. n. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

2. v. t. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

3. v. i. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

Definition of Smut

1. Noun. Soot. ¹

2. Noun. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. ¹

3. Noun. A promiscuous, trashy, classless woman. ¹

4. Noun. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused. ¹

5. Verb. To stain (or be stained) with soot etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smut

1. to soil [v SMUTTED, SMUTTING, SMUTS] - See also: soil

Medical Definition of Smut

1. 1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. 2. Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. 3. An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis. 4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. "He does not stand upon decency . . . But will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room." (Addison) Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut. Origin: Akin to Sw. Smuts, Dan. Smuds, MHG. Smuz, G. Schmutz, D. Smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig, smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E. Smite. See Smite, and cf. Smitt, Smutch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smut

smurfiest smurfing smurfs smurfy smurred smurrier smurriest smurring smurry smurs

smushed smushes smushing smushy smut fungus smutch smutched smutches smutchier smutchiest

smutchin smutching smutchy smuthounds smutmonger

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