South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950). Synonym:Jan Christian Smuts.
Smut
noun
1.
A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink. Synonyms:carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot.
2.
Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.
3.
Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales. Synonym:smut fungus.
Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. Synonyms:erotica, porn, porno, pornography.
verb
(past & past part. smutted; pres. part. smutting)
1.
Make obscene.
2.
Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.
3.
Become affected with smut.
4.
Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.
... small alarum clock placed in the very centre of his mantelpiece. Flanking that round and ruthless arbiter, which drove him day by day to stand up on feet whose time had come to rest, were the effigies of his past triumphs. On the one hand, in a papier-mache frame, slightly tinged with smuts, stood a portrait of the "Honorable Bateson," in the uniform of his Yeomanry. Creed's former master's face wore that dare-devil look with which he had been wont to say: "D—-n it, Creed! lend me a pound. I've got no money!" On the other hand, in a green frame which had once been plush, and covered ... — Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
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