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Smut

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Noun

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

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. dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut, vulgarism

an offensive or indecent word or phrase

5. erotica, porn, porno, pornography, smut

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

Verb

6. smut

make obscene

Example Sentences:
'This line in the play smuts the entire act'

7. smut

stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

8. smut

become affected with smut

Example Sentences:
'the corn smutted and could not be eaten'

9. smut

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Smut

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noun
1. 
a small dark smudge or stain, esp one caused by soot
2. 
a speck of soot or dirt
3. 
something obscene or indecent
4. 
a. 
any of various fungal diseases of flowering plants, esp cereals, in which black sooty masses of spores cover the affected parts
b. 
any parasitic basidiomycetous fungus of the order Ustilaginales that causes such a disease
5. angling
a midge or other insect relished by trout
verbWord forms: smuts, smutting or smutted
6. 
to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot
7. 
to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut
8. (transitive)
to remove smut from (grain)
9. (transitive)
to make obscene
10. (intransitive)
to emit soot or smut
11. (intransitive) angling
(of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts

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Smut

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noun
1. 
a. 
sooty matter
b. 
a particle of this
2. 
a mark made by something dirty; soiled spot
3. 
pornographic or indecent talk, writing, etc.
4.  Botany
a. 
any of various plant diseases, esp. of cereal grasses, characterized by the appearance of masses of black spores which usually break up into a fine powder
b. 
any of an order (Ustilaginales) of basidiomycetous fungi causing smut
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈsmutted or ˈsmutting
5. 
to mark or affect with smut
verb intransitive
6. 
to be marked or affected by smut

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Smut

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n.
1.
a. A particle of dirt or soot: "the smoke and flames blowing from the lantern which peppered him with large black smuts" (Joyce Cary).
b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
2. Sexually explicit or prurient language or material, such as books or movies.
v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts
v.tr.
1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
2. To affect (a plant) with smut fungus.
v.intr.
To be or become blackened or smudged.

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