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Smut
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- 1 Soot. uncountable
- 2 creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire wordnet
- 3 A flake of ash or soot. countable
"She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly."
- 4 an offensive or indecent word or phrase wordnet
- 5 Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. uncountable
"The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects."
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- 6 any fungus of the order Ustilaginales wordnet
- 7 Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. uncountable
"He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room."
- 8 destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores wordnet
- 9 Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused. countable, uncountable
"If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut."
- 10 a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink wordnet
- 11 Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. countable, uncountable
- 12 A copper boiler. archaic, countable, slang
- 1 To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt. ambitransitive
"it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts"
- 2 affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn wordnet
- 3 To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus. transitive
"Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it"
- 4 become affected with smut wordnet
- 5 To become tainted by the smut fungus. intransitive
"It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year."
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- 6 stain with a dirty substance, such as soot wordnet
- 7 To clear of the smut fungus. transitive
"to smut grain for the mill"
- 8 make obscene wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
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