"smut" in the noun sense

1. carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

2. smut

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

3. smut, smut fungus

any fungus of the order Ustilaginales

4. obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word

an offensive or indecent word or phrase

5. pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut

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

"smut" in the verb sense

1. smut

make obscene

"This line in the play smuts the entire act"

2. smut

stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

3. smut

become affected with smut

"the corn smutted and could not be eaten"

4. smut

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

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