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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.

4.

An offensive or indecent word or phrase. Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism.

5.

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.

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"Smut" Quotes from Famous Books

... started to cut the rust and smut was just beginning to shed, And all we had to sleep on was a dog and sheep-skin bed. The bugs and fleas tormented me, they made me scratch and screw; I lost my rest while ...

— The Old Bush Songs • A. B. Paterson

... merely. But now, thank Heaven, so much trouble was out of my way. Mrs. Unity Smith, and Mrs. Orlando—no, Ossian Smutt, could by no possibility laugh at me. Mrs. A. Sampson wasn't bad on a card. It would not smut one, anyhow. I laughed grimly, and composed ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

... Mick got angry. "You useless smut!" he shouted, when Eagle handed him a couple of brands which were not hot enough. "You useless smut! I thought you said you'd worked on Eridunda. What work did you do ...

— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman

... house looked the same as they drove up to it, with its twenty oak trees in a semi-circle and the gates in the middle. There was the same watch-dog, Lion; and on the parlour hearth-rug, lying curled up in the sunshine, lay Smut, grandmamma's ...

— Woodside - or, Look, Listen, and Learn. • Caroline Hadley

... teachers to teach 'em how to play. Poor beggars, think of having to be taught by a grown-up how to play a game! They all have a rudimentary idea of base-ball; the American spirit and the sporting extras see to that. But I never see 'em playing anything else much, not even out here where the suburbs smut ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

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