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Smutty

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.

    "She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove."

  2. 2
    Obscene, indecent. figuratively

    "And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts."

  3. 3
    Affected with the smut fungus.
Adjective
  1. 1
    soiled with dirt or soot wordnet
  2. 2
    characterized by obscenity wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make dirty; to soil. transitive

    "[…] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).

Etymology 2

From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).

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