smut

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

2. 2transitive verb

   Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

3. 3transitive 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. 4transitive verb

   Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

5. 5transitive verb

   To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

6. 6transitive verb

   To taint with mildew, as grain.

7. 7transitive verb

   To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

8. 8transitive verb

   To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

10. 10intransitive verb

    To give off smut; to crock.

11. 11noun

    creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire

    Synonyms

    eroticapornpornopornography
12. 12noun

    an offensive or indecent word or phrase

    Synonyms

    filthobscenityvulgarism
13. 13noun

    any fungus of the order Ustilaginales

14. 14noun

    destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores

15. 15noun

    a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

    Synonyms

    crocklampblacksoot
16. 16verb

    affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

17. 17verb

    become affected with smut

    "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"

18. 18verb

    stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

19. 19verb

    make obscene

    "This line in the play smuts the entire act"