SMUT

pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut

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

obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word

(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase

smut, smut fungus

(noun) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales

smut

(noun) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores

smut

(verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

smut

(verb) become affected with smut; “the corn smutted and could not be eaten”

smut

(verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

smut

(verb) make obscene; “This line in the play smuts the entire act”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

(uncountable) Soot.

(countable) A flake of ash or soot.

(uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.

(uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

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

(mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

Synonyms

• (soot): filth

• (sexually vulgar or pornographic material): filth

Verb

smut (third-person singular simple present smuts, present participle smutting, simple past and past participle smutted)

(ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.

(transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.

(intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.

(transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.

Anagrams

• MTUs, UMTS, must, stum, tums

Source: Wiktionary

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Smut, n. Etym: [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, v. t., and cf. Smitt, Smutch.]

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

2. (Mining)

Definition: Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

Smut, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]

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

2. To taint with mildew, as grain. Bacon.

3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

Smut, v. i.

1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. Mortimer.

2. To give off smut; to crock.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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