Smut

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A particle of dirt or soot.
  • noun. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
  • noun. Sexually explicit or prurient language or material, such as books or movies.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi chiefly of the class Ustilaginomycetes that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
  • noun. A fungus causing such a disease.
  • intransitive verb. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
  • intransitive verb. To affect (a plant) with smut.
  • intransitive verb. To be or become blackened or smudged.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In leather manufacturing, to go over (the blacked side of a hide or skin) with a woolen cloth to remove dirt and improve the appearance of the blacking.
  • To stain or mark with smut; blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
  • To affect with the disease called smut; mildew.
  • Figuratively, to tarnish; defile; make impure; blacken.
  • To make obscene.
  • To gather smut; be converted into smut.
  • To give off smut; crock.
  • noun. A spot made with soot, coal, or the like; also, the fouling matter itself.
  • noun. Obscene or filthy language.
  • noun. A fungous disease of plants, affecting especially the cereal plants, to many of which it is exceedingly destructive.
  • noun. Earthy, worthless coal, such as is often found at the outcrop of a seam. In Pennsylvania also called black-dirt, blossom, and crop.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
  • intransitive verb. To give off smut; to crock.
  • transitive verb. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
  • transitive verb. To taint with mildew, as grain.
  • transitive verb. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
  • transitive verb. To clear of smut.
  • noun. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
  • noun. Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
  • noun. An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
  • noun. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
  • noun. a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Soot.
  • noun. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
  • noun. A promiscuous, classless woman.
  • noun. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
  • verb. To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
  • verb. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an offensive or indecent word or phrase
  • noun. any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
  • noun. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
  • noun. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  • verb. become affected with smut
  • verb. affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
  • noun. destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
  • verb. make obscene
  • verb. stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
  • Word Usage
    "Would the new religious conservatives ban what they call smut from every legal avenue of public acquisition and jail those who get caught publishing or peddling it?"
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    Form
    corn smut  smutty  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  atomic number 6  c  carbon  change  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hutt  Knut  abut  but  butt  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bawdry  dago  dozer  feds  field-mice  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    smutted  smutting  
    verb-form
    smuts  smutted  smutting