smutty

American  

[smuht-ee] / ˈsmʌt i /

adjective

smuttier, smuttiest

1. soiled with smut; grimy.

2. indecent or obscene, as talk or writing.

   a smutty novel.

3. given to indecent or obscene talk, writing, etc., as a person.

4. (of plants) affected with smut.

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Other Word Forms

• smuttiness
  noun
• unsmutty
  adjective
• smuttily
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of smutty

First recorded in 1590–1600; smut + -y ¹

Example Sentences

After the story of its discovery appeared in The Times, Mr. Vidal faced a wave of online criticism and decided to return the instrument to its rightful owner, the Rockats’ tattooed legend, Smutty Smiff.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

He wants to help Smutty get his bass back, but he also doesn’t want any trouble, he said, and was alarmed when his Facebook tribute to Smutty morphed “immediately into a ‘Sopranos’ episode,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2021

Mr. Vidal had never seen the Rockats and had never heard the name Smutty Smiff.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2021

Standing in that pawnshop, Mr. Ulrich wondered why Smutty would have hocked his big, beautiful bass, and he asked the pawnshop owner, Manny Vidal, how much he wanted for it.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2021

There is also, within a small enclosure of rough pine boards, a white marble gravestone, in memory of a young man named Bekker, son of the person who now keeps the hotel on Smutty Nose.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel