smut
Nouns
- (n) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot,
- (n) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- (n) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales smut fungus,
- (n) an offensive or indecent word or phrase dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, filth,
- (n) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire erotica, porn, porno, pornography,
Verbs
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(v) make obscene
- This line in the play smuts the entire act
- (v) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
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(v) become affected with smut
- the corn smutted and could not be eaten
- (v) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn