smut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
business
medicine
mining
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
Inflected forms:
form: smuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smutted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Soot.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A flake of ash or soot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.
“You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.
“Do I have a smut on my nose, Mr. Donovan? You've been staring at me for a full minute. It's most disconcerting, you know.”
gloss: Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects.
It is no use to say, well, your anthrostate requires smut to be shielded, but your neighbor’s antrhostate^([sic]) says he can show anything anywhere. The neighbor’s behavior affects you, so you have to have the same rules.
gloss: Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
gloss: Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.
gloss: Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A copper boiler.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
gloss: To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts
But the Nis did not forget it to the maids; for the following Sunday when they were going to the dance, be contrived, unknown to them, to smut their faces all over, so that when they got up to dance, every one that was there burst out a laughing at them.
gloss: To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it
gloss: To become tainted by the smut fungus.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year.
gloss: To clear of the smut fungus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to smut grain for the mill
Derived words: antismut
barley smut
besmut
corn smut
cybersmut
false loose smut
hetsmut
loose smut
onion smut
smut-ball
smutfest
smutfic
smut fungus
smuthound
smutless
smutmonger
smutproof
smutter
smutty
Treksmut
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