smut

smut is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
2. transitive verb. Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
3. transitive verb. An affection 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 U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
4. transitive verb. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
5. transitive verb. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
6. transitive verb. To taint with mildew, as grain.
7. transitive verb. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
8. transitive verb. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
9. intransitive verb. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
10. intransitive verb. To give off smut; to crock.
11. noun. 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

12. noun. an offensive or indecent word or phrase

    Synonyms: filth, obscenity, vulgarism

13. noun. any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
14. noun. destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
15. noun. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

    Synonyms: crock, lampblack, soot

16. verb. affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
17. verb. become affected with smut

    "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"

18. verb. stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
19. verb. make obscene

    "This line in the play smuts the entire act"

Synonyms

erotica, porn, porno, pornography, filth, obscenity, vulgarism, crock, lampblack, soot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smut:

must, muts, stum, tums

Common word forms

smuts, smutted, smutter, smutless, smutting

Words from these letters

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