smut
(smŭt)
[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]
noun
- A particle of dirt.
- A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
- Obscenity in speech or writing.
- Pornography.
- Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
- A fungus causing such a disease.
verb: smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts.
transitive verb
- To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
- To affect (a plant) with smut.
- To free (grain, for example) from smut.
- To make obscene.
intransitive verb
- To emit smut.
- To be or become blackened or smudged.
- To become affected with smut, as a plant.
derivatives
- smut́ti·ly
- adverb
- smut́ti·ness
- noun
- smut́ty
- adjective
