smut meaning

Noun: smut smút
1. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  - carbon black, lampblack, soot, crock
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
  - smut fungus
4. An offensive or indecent word or phrase
  - obscenity, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
5. Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
  - pornography, erotica
Verb: smut (smutted,smutting) smút
1. Make obscene
  "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
2. Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
3. Become affected with smut
  "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
4. Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
Derived forms: smutting, smutted, smuts
See also: smutty
Type of: alter, atomic number 6, C, carbon, change, creation, creative activity, fungus, infect, mildew, modify, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], plant disease, profanity, stain, taint
Part of: order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales
Encyclopedia: Smut
[Medicine]
n : any of various destructive diseases esp. of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi (order Ustilaginales); also : a fungus causing a smut

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