smut
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
a black or dirty mark; smudge.
indecent language or publications; obscenity.
Plant Pathology.
a disease of plants, especially cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
a fungus causing this disease.
to soil or smudge.
to become affected with smut, as a plant.
Origin of smut
1Other words from smut
- an·ti·smut, adjective
- un·smut·ted, adjective
Words Nearby smut
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How to use smut in a sentence
The people who made those films insisted they were not smut but art.
For model and actress Audrey Munson, a long and tragic final chapter | John Kelly | January 13, 2021 | Washington Postsmut-nosed Dolph never listened before to such praise as was lavished by the hungry men over the pannikins which he heaped.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayWe see here the Poet confesses smut a scandalous Entertainment.
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy CollierThey are fortified in smut, and almost impregnable in Stench, so that where they deserve most, there's no coming at them.
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy CollierWee'l then believe you don't talk smut, when we percieve you careful not to hear it.
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy Collier
The shining surface reflected the smut, and he seemed to himself to be two.
Miscellanea | Juliana Horatia Ewing
British Dictionary definitions for smut
/ (smʌt) /
a small dark smudge or stain, esp one caused by soot
a speck of soot or dirt
something obscene or indecent
any of various fungal diseases of flowering plants, esp cereals, in which black sooty masses of spores cover the affected parts
any parasitic basidiomycetous fungus of the order Ustilaginales that causes such a disease
angling a minute midge or other insect relished by trout
to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot
to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut
(tr) to remove smut from (grain)
(tr) to make obscene
(intr) to emit soot or smut
(intr) angling (of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts
Origin of smut
1Derived forms of smut
- smutty, adjective
- smuttily, adverb
- smuttiness, noun
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Scientific definitions for smut
[ smŭt ]
Any of various bacidiomycete fungi that are parasitic on plants and are distinguished by the black, powdery masses of spores that appear as sooty smudges on the affected plant parts. Smuts are parasitic chiefly on cereal grasses like corn and wheat and can cause enormous damage to crops.
Any of the various plant diseases caused by smuts, such as corn smut.
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