1. smut(n = noun.substance) carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink;
is a kind of atomic number 6, c, carbon
Derived form verb smut2
2. smut(n = noun.state) - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores;
is a kind of plant disease
has particulars: loose smut, bunt, stinking smut, flag smut, false smut, green smut
Derived forms verb smut4, verb smut3
3. smut(n = noun.plant) smut fungus - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales;
is a kind of fungus
is a member of order ustilaginales, ustilaginales
has particulars: covered smut, loose smut, corn smut, cornsmut, genus sphacelotheca, sphacelotheca, head smut, sphacelotheca reiliana, bunt, tilletia caries, bunt, stinking smut, tilletia foetida, onion smut, urocystis cepulae, flag smut fungus
Derived forms verb smut4, verb smut3
4. smut(n = noun.communication) dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism - an offensive or indecent word or phrase;
is a kind of profanity
has particulars: bawdry, bawdy, scatology
Derived form adjective smutty1
5. smut(n = noun.act) erotica, porn, porno, pornography - creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire;
is a kind of creation, creative activity
has particulars: child pornography, kiddie porn, kiddy porn
Derived forms verb smut1, adjective smutty1
1. smut(v = verb.change) - make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun smut5
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
2. smut(v = verb.change) - stain with a dirty substance, such as soot;
is one way to stain
Derived form noun smut1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
3. smut(v = verb.change) - become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
is one way to mildew, mold
Derived forms noun smut3, noun smut2
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
4. smut(v = verb.body) - affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn;
is one way to infect, taint
Derived forms noun smut3, noun smut2
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something
1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. [1913 Webster]
2. Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. [1913 Webster]
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
4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. [1913 Webster]
"He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room." [1913 Webster]
1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance. [1913 Webster]
2. To taint with mildew, as grain. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish. [1913 Webster]
4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill. [1913 Webster]
1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
2. To give off smut; to crock. [1913 Webster]
smut, n. & v.
--n.
1 a small flake of soot etc.
2 a spot or smudge made by this.
3 obscene or lascivious talk, pictures, or stories.
4 a a fungous disease of cereals in which parts of the ear change to black powder. b any fungus of the order Ustilaginales causing this.
--v. (smutted, smutting)
1 tr. mark with smuts.
2 tr. infect (a plant) with smut.
3 intr. (of a plant) contract smut.
Idiom:
smut-ball Agriculture grain affected by smut. smut-mill a machine for freeing grain from smut.
Derivative:
smutty adj. (smuttier, smuttiest) (esp. in sense 3 of n.). smuttily adv. smuttiness n.
Etymology:
rel. to LG smutt, MHG smutz(en) etc.: cf. OE smitt(ian) smear, and SMUDGE(1)
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
boil smut, corn smut, covered smut, false smut, flag smut, flag smut fungus, green smut, green smut fungus, head smut, loose smut, onion smut, smut fungus, smut grass, stinking smut, wheat flag smut