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Smut   /smət/   Listen
noun
Smut  n.  
1.
Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
2.
(Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
3.
(Bot.) An infection 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 Ustilago Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
4.
Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. "He does not stand upon decency... but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room."
Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.


verb
Smut  v. t.  (past & past part. smutted; pres. part. smutting)  
1.
To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
2.
To taint with mildew, as grain.
3.
To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
4.
To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.


Smut  v. i.  
1.
To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
2.
To give off smut; to crock.





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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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